Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In 1927, the painter Eladio Vélez, from Antioquia, fulfilled his dream of going to study in Europe. The letters he wrote to his family when he was a student in Europe have been copied and kept. In the one selected here (written on April 9, 1927), to [...]

In the second part of his book on the life and work of sculptor Marco Tobón Mejía, painter Jorge Cárdenas discusses Tobón Mejía’s reliefs, commemorative and funerary monuments, and other sculpture. He describes how Tobón Mejía’s study of [...]

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In this text, Colombian writer Darío Jaramillo Agudelo voices his assessment of works included in an exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín in 1983. In his view, these works represent a new form of academicism in Colombia, one [...]

In this essay written for Revista Colombiana, the art critic Javier Arango Ferrer declares himself to be in favor of nationalism. He carefully and shrewdly reviews the works of the sculptors Rómulo Rozo and Marco Tobón Mejía, and the painter Marco [...]