Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Diego Rivera had an ongoing interest in popular art, which he began referring to as “Mexican popular art,” moving on from the ideas expressed in the previous article on retablos (see "Los Retablos: verdadera actual y única expresión pictórica [...]

Together with an article published by David Alfaro Siqueiros in México en el arte [Mexico in Art], the current document is part of a conversation between the artist and the Guatemalan critic Luis Cardoza y Aragón, concerning the current state of [...]

Renato Molina Enriquez chooses four photos by Tina Modotti and through them unveils the beauty of a contemporary vision linked to industrial progress by finding in the photos of electric cables a refined sensuality. The photos are not a product at [...]

Diego Rivera explores the circumstances of traditional Mexican folk art, in all its manifestations, and examines the problems created for artisans by the patronage of a public lacking in good taste, as well as by the influence of the minor arts of [...]