Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Leonardo Estarico critiques the seven artists (Antonio Berni, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Horacio Butler, Ramón Goméz Cornet, Héctor Basaldúa, Aquiles Badi, and Emilio Pettoruti) who exhibited at Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art [...]

Julio Rinaldini criticizes the exhibition of modern artists in Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art] and maintains that it conceals a disturbing situation under a pleasant tone: modern painting is not liberty without control, he states. The critic defends [...]

This essay by the Spanish writer Guillermo de Torre presents an interesting comparison between avant-garde literature and painting in Argentina. The writer describes the new painters with precise commentaries on the visual arts, as well as touching [...]

Rafael Squirru writes about a project for the company Fiat Concord—railcar maker—to incorporate art into its wagons. He maintains that Argentina is experiencing a moment of liberation of creative energies. Squirru is pointing out the importance [...]

This critique emphasizes the search for Modern art undertaken by the artists at an exhibition mounted at the Asociación de los Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art Association] circa 1930); they were Antonio Berni, Lino Enea Spilimbergo,Horacio Butler [...]

This article analyzes the qualities of some of the artists who participated in the XVII Salón de Primavera [17th Spring Salon] (Buenos Aires, 1927); however, before it broaches the matter, the article reflects on the institutionalization of art in [...]

In this article dealing with the Salón de Primavera [Spring Salon], Alfredo Chiabra-Acosta explores different aspects of the art field: both the state and the traits of contemporary art criticism, the difference between the modern and the new art [...]

Luis Felipe Noé defines the landscapes that Horacio Butler exhibited at Galería Bonino as a rare example of artistic gravity and balance in Argentine painting. Butler's work resolves the problems of figuration in the visual arts through the initial [...]

Julio Rinaldini criticizes the leaflet with the manifesto of the Seven Artists (Antonio Berni, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Horacio Butler, Ramón Goméz Cornet, Héctor Basaldúa, Aquiles Badi, and Emilio Pettoruti) who participated in the exhibition at [...]

The checklist of the retrospective exhibition of modern artists at Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art] in 1935. Those who participated, with important works created since the 1920s, were Aquiles Badi, Héctor Basaldúa, Antonio Berni, Horacio Butler, [...]

This satirical poem deals with the modern Argentine painters who are defenders of “arte puro” [art for art’s sake]; in other words, any artist who opposed the socially committed art promoted by the Mexican artist, David Alfaro Siqueiros [...]

The Argentinean painter Antonio Berni harshly criticizes the artists linked aesthetically to Horacio Butler (the Paris Group as widely known in Argentina) as well as those linked to Atilio Chiappori (Fernando Fader, among others). Berni believes them [...]

Alberto Prebisch points out that given the quantity of new artists shown each time at the Salón de Primavera [Spring Salon], two sections can be distinguished. The first and most numerous is comprised of works absolutely devoid of aesthetic appeal [...]