Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

André Salmon introduces Lola Cueto’s work by referring to certain moments that he considers important. He suggests that Edouard Manet’s painting, La Muerte de Maximiliano [The Death of Maximilian], was Mexico’s debut in the visual arts. [...]

This brief article from the Mexican newspaper El Universal Ilustrado reports on the Lola Velásquez Cueto exhibition of tapestries that opened in Paris on February 6, 1929. The article reproduces the first paragraph of the introduction to the [...]

Mariano Picón Salas produced this biographical sketch of Lola Cueto on the occasion of her visit to Venezuela for the exhibition of her collection of prints and a program of puppet shows. He discusses the artist’s life and work from three separate [...]

In a series of philosophical commentaries, Jean Charlot emphasizes what is important and novel in Lola Cueto’s perforated paper works. He points out that one must remove parts of a stone in order create something. He talks about the idea of taking [...]

John Xceron reviews works by Lola Cueto that were exhibited at the Salle de la Renaissance 11 in Paris on February 6, 1929. He begins by saying that the best Mexican art is the traditional folk art created by simple, intuitive people, inspired by the [...]