Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this tribute published in 1991, the painter and art critic Quirino Campofiorito recalls the work of Bruno Lechowski, done by the Polish painter who was living in Rio de Janeiro in the1930s. The writer believes Lechowski was responsible for [...]

Painter Aldo Malagolia, a member of the Núcleo Bernardelli ---which by that date had all but disbanded--- remembers the history of the Brazilian group in this article. When it lost its headquarters, the Núcleo ran the risk of breaking up; which in [...]

The painter Edson Motta comments on the innovations he sees at the 1949 Salão Nacional in the wake of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian government led by Getúlio Vargas (1930–45), which has now split into two sections—the general and the [...]

This is the statement given by the Japanese painter Yoshiya Takaoka when he was interviewed by the researcher Daisy Peccinini in 1976. The artist talks about his life and work, recalling his immigration to Brazil in 1925 and his first jobs as an [...]

In this excerpt from his book Pancetti (Rio de Janeiro: Ministério da Educação e Cultura, 1960), Medeiros Lima recounts José Pancetti’s first experiences with paintings when he was still a sailor. The section cited begins with the painting work [...]