Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

According to Carlos Fuentes, Leonora Carrington’s painting belongs in the “secret realm” of magic—a place where opposites interact and fill the pictorial space with mythical figures, where the “logic of dreams vanquishes the madness of [...]

Alfonso de Neuvillate reviews the life and work of Remedios Varo, in a tribute to the Spanish painter who had died a few days earlier. Neuvillate believed that Varo, an exponent of Surrealism, had long since staked out an important space in the [...]

According to Palencia, Leonora Carrington is unique among Surrealist painters because she knows how to harmonize, combine, and fuse the naïve aspects of primitive art with the modern expression of André Breton. The critic says that Carrington [...]