Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Hernando Santos Castillo, director of the newspaper El Tiempo, considers Norman Mejía one of the most promising young painters in the country mostly because “Mejía has wisely managed to avoid the Obregón-Botero complex,” an almost inevitable [...]

This interview by journalist Héctor Muñoz for the newspaper El Espectador was one of the first with painter Norman Mejía, from Cartagena, to be published in the press after he was awarded first prize at the 1965 edition of the Salón Nacional de [...]

In early 1965, Marta Traba placed the exhibition by Norman Mejía, a Colombian artist, in the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá, as one that would serve to represent “a questioning of values and of the real position of the neo-figurative art trend [...]

This is the program for the Primer Festival de Arte de Vanguardia [First Festival of Avant-Garde Art] presented at the Galería de Arte La Nacional in the city of Cali, from June 16 through July 1, 1965 by artists who were members of the nadaísta [ [...]

In this article, art historian María Margarita Malagón-Kurka analyzes a series of works by Colombian artists that address the topic of violence. She argues that there are two distinct tendencies that took shape in two different historical moments. [...]

In her review written for Arte en Colombia magazine, the Uruguayan critic Ivonne Pini presents an overview of works by Colombian artists who were producing testimonial art from 1963 through the early 1970s. After referring to certain aspects of Latin [...]