Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, reporter Carlos Eduardo Misle, alias “Caremis,” remembers Venezuelan draftsman and humorist Leoncio Martínez, known as LEO, on the forty-second anniversary of his death. “Caremis” mainly discusses Leo’s work in advertising, [...]

The art critic Perán Erminy reviews and analyzes the exhibition Testimonios organized by El Techo de la Ballena in the context of an international meeting of this group. In this text, Erminy points out what he finds interesting in this exhibition: [...]

This article examines how Rómulo Gallegos’ writing influenced Luis Guevara Moreno’s painting. The author quotes the painter’s description of producing paintings that illustrate “the setting in a Gallegos story.” Guevara Moreno explains how [...]

Journalist Ildemaro Torres analyzes the life and work of painter Abilio Padrón (b. 1931). In his article he describes the artistic process of his career as a draftsman and graphic illustrator. The author likewise includes in his text a chronology [...]

In this article Mara Comerlati reviews the exhibition of prints by the visual artist Pedro Ángel González (1901–81). The journalist describes the exhibition at the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados) as a reunion with González and his [...]

In this essay, the artist and critic Juan Calzadilla reviews his own creative process and his work. He explains the connection between drawing and writing in his work, referring to drawing as a form of “visual writing” consisting of “ [...]

Painter Bernando Monsanto Cocking analyzes the life and work of Armando Lira. In this text, he succinctly recounts the work of the Chilean-Venezuelan artist as an exponent of Venezuelan culture beginning with his arrival in the country through the [...]

Alexander Calder, the North American visual artist, talks about his trip to Venezuela during the summer of 1955, when the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva organized an exhibition of his works in Caracas. Calder discusses the process involved in [...]

In this article, Enrique Planchart, the Venezuelan man of letters, discusses César Prieto’s paintings. Planchart reviews the Venezuelan painter’s life, from his early days at the old Academia de Bellas Artes (when it was in the Mijares de Soló [...]

In this interview, Luis Guevara Moreno tells the journalist Lenelina Delgado that the best way to produce an ‘anthological’ exhibition is to do it when the artist in question is dead, and cannot intervene and pressure the organizers to make a [...]

The interviewers delve into Régulo Pérez’s work and the artist offers them a brief description of his artwork, referring to the number of works he produces each year and expressing his opinion on the salons, admitting to their importance in [...]

The art critic Humberto Mata reviews the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Luis Adrián León (alias Carúpano). In his essay, Mata highlights the transcendence of the artist’s choice of theme in his work. Mata describes the analogical [...]

This newspaper article reproduces the letter from the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez in which he rejects the 1st Prize in Painting awarded at the Exposición Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1972. In the letter, Pérez sets forth the reasons [...]

The social commentator Santos López interviews Luis Adrián León (alias “Carúpano”) and, during the course of their conversation, discusses the latter’s prints. The author briefly reviews this Venezuelan artist’s creative process, touching [...]

In this text, Régulo Pérez explains the significance and repercussions on both artistic and intellectual levels of having illustrated the “Entrevistas imaginarias” section of the Venezuelan newspaper Últimas Noticias, which featured imaginary [...]

The critic Juan Carlos Palenzuela interviews the visual artist Luis Alfredo López Méndez. The conversation yields information about the latter’s work as a painter, teacher, diplomat, congressman, TV program producer, journalist with the Cí [...]

The historian Juan Carlos Palenzuela reviews the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Luis Guevara Moreno. In the author’s opinion, the works selected for the exhibition at the GAN (Galería de Arte Nacional) do not present a very clear or definite [...]

Critic Perán Erminy expresses his opinion of the works by Venezuelan artist Luis Guevara Moreno exhibited at the Sala Mendoza in Caracas. He asserts that because Guevara Moreno has replaced “intimate and autobiographical lyricism” with the [...]

In this newspaper interview, José Ratto Ciarlo talks to the painter Régulo Pérez, eliciting his thoughts concerning Venezuelan artists exiled in Paris and other parts of the world, the total lack of a “Venezuelan art” as such, and Picasso’s [...]

Luis Guevara Moreno describes drawing as “the quickest and most efficient way to capture form vividly.” He views drawing as the clearest way to convey a thought, calling it an especially pure form of expression in terms of both “the means and [...]

In this critique Susana Benko analyzes the work of Ivan Petrovsky. The author covers drawings by Petrovsky belonging to different periods of his artistic production, while describing the range of techniques and materials he used. Benko likewise [...]

Juan Calzadilla reviews the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Pedro Ángel González. In his essay, Calzadilla mentions the artist’s creativity and critical skills, referring to his constant reflection on his own work and the work of other [...]

The writer J. R. Guillent Pérez interviews Luis Guevara Moreno. The conversation reveals, in great detail, why the Venezuelan painter stopped working in an abstract style. Guevara Moreno states that the concerns and “anxieties of people today” [...]

The critic Víctor Guédez reviews the work of Régulo Pérez and compares the formal changes and innovations he sees in this Venezuelan visual artist’s work with his earlier material. Guédez stresses the consistency of the artist’s message, [...]

In this essay, researcher Ivette Villarreal offers a partial chronology on specific works produced by the Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez from 1968, describing the series of sketches and notes he made in situ at the construction of the Guri Dam. She [...]

This interview by critic and curator Juan Carlos Palenzuela with Venezuelan visual artist Pedro Ángel González does not follow a question-answer format. Palenzuela instead lets the artist freely recount his early days at art school when he was just [...]

Maritza Jiménez  interviews Luis Alfredo López Méndez, the Venezuelan artist, who talks about the countries he has lived in since being expelled from Venezuela by dictator Juan Vicente Gómez [1908-15, 1922-35], and the work he pursued to survive [...]

Roberto Guevara reviews what are described as the first and second stages in Corina Briceño’s career as an artist. Guevara begins by contextualizing her generation; he mentions that she is committed to reclaiming “a new humanism” expressed [...]

In this text, Rafael Pineda analyzes the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez during the 1980s. The themes that stand out in this work are related to nature: flora, fauna and landscapes situated in a cultural milieu. This renders them [...]

The Venezuelan art critic Enrique Planchart analyzes the work of Nicolás Alexeevich Ferdinandov. In his text, Planchart comments on the general aspects of the personality of this Russian architect and visual artist who made an extended visit to [...]

Journalist Mingui Betancourt explains the origin, creative process, and intention behind the works created by Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez (b. 1929) for the exhibition Humor rehecho [Humor Remade]. The text offers a brief summary of the artist’ [...]

Journalist Jesús Sanoja Hernández analyzes (describes, assesses, studies) the part of Régulo Pérez’s artistic production as a humorist. He defines his characteristic sense of humor, filled with “historical ironies” and “working-class [...]

This interview with Venezuelan painter Luis Guevara Moreno was held after he had been awarded first prize at the Salón Arturo Michelena. In it, the artist enumerates the opportunities he had to participate in exhibitions in Paris. He also mentions [...]

[In this text], Bélgica Rodríguez critically analyzes the innovative ideas of Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez, in both national and international spheres. The curator and critic describes some of the characteristics of his artistic process, [...]

The sociologist Oswaldo Barreto discusses Régulo Pérez’s artistic body of work, beginning with a description of the latter’s search for meaning and his felicitous introduction to the city of Caracas. Barreto provides a chronological review that [...]

Carlos Yusti offers a journalistic summary of Régulo Pérez’s career. The author comments on various phases and key events that nurtured his creative process; for example, he began as a painter for the lottery of animals, providing the [...]

Here, the critic Juan Calzadilla analyzes the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez, starting with the artist’s adherence to figurative art. The text even clarifies that this is a contemporary artist who has developed his work within [...]

In this critical analysis, Rafael Pineda considers the influence of the Orinoco River on the artwork of Régulo Pérez. The writer emphasizes the importance of that context, which involved the early years of the artist’s life, in the way he was [...]

[In this text], critic Roberto Guevara analyzes the work of Régulo Pérez. In his analysis, Guevara compares the artistic process of this Venezuelan artist with that of Jacobo Borges; this process began vehemently and crudely, but once his urgency [...]

This document is the first issue of Imagen, a journal of art, literature, and cultural information published every two weeks by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, in Venezuela. This issue offers articles related to cultural events in [...]

The critic Juan Carlos Palenzuela reviews the acquisition by the Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN) of forty Leoncio Martínez drawings and caricatures. In addition to being a draftsman and caricaturist, this artist was also a poet and critic. The [...]

In this anonymous article, visual artists Jacobo Borges, Luis Guevara Moreno, and Julio Pacheco voice their opinions of the image of Simón Bolívar the Liberator created by José Campos Biscardi. Guevara Moreno remarks on the conditions that make [...]

Bélgica Rodríguez analyzes the work of sculptor Colette Delozanne, the Venezuelan artist born in France. In this text, she covers Delozanne’s artistic and personal trajectory, including her arrival in Venezuela in 1955. The author divides the [...]