Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this introductory essay, “La huelga del color” (The Color Strike), Glória Ferreira includes an article that had appeared in the newspaper Correio da Manhã on May 16, 1954. The article described the third Salão [...]

Written at a moment of intense sociopolitical conflict in Uruguay, this article explains the grounds for the decision of the Unión de Artistas Plásticos Contemporáneos (UAPC) to boycott any and all government organized art events. Its author, [...]

Critic María Luz Cárdenas explains the various categories used to classify the works produced in the seventies by the artists participating in the twenty-fifth Salón Nacional de Arte Aragua (Maracay, 2000). Her curatorial thesis for the event [...]

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In this text, art critic María Luz Cárdenas explains the concerns underlying the fifth Salón Pirelli, which in her view, is a concise reflection on the conflicts and dilemmas that new technological media have brought to artistic creation. Cá [...]

The interviewers delve into Régulo Pérez’s work and the artist offers them a brief description of his artwork, referring to the number of works he produces each year and expressing his opinion on the salons, admitting to their importance in [...]

Commentary by painter and art critic Eduardo Moll on the I Salón de Arte Abstracto held in Lima (January 1958), which he participated in and helped organize. Moll emphasizes the large number of participating artists and artworks, stating that this [...]

Carlos Aitor Castillo describes the I Salón de Arte Abstracto as an “appealing novelty” that provides an opportunity to judge the Peruvian response to the abstract movement. He rates it as a rather poor one, referring to the participating [...]

Though no fan of abstraction, Sebastián Salazar Bondy applauds the initiative shown by the I Salón de Arte Abstracto (Lima, January 1958) in acknowledging the important role played by non-figurative movements in the contemporary world. In his [...]

In his article “El XXVII Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales: reflexiones y argumentos” [The 27th National Salon for the Visual Arts: Reflections and Arguments], Eduardo Márceles Daconte challenges the unfavorable views of the Salón Nacional de [...]

Published in Revista Post, this article brings together the reflections that curator José Ignacio Roca formulated in issue number eleven of “Columna de arena,” a biweekly forum for criticism of art and contemporary culture (http://www.universes- [...]

In this open letter by Alejandro Otero [Rodríguez] to his  journalist friend, Miguel Otero Silva, the Venezuelan artist brings forth his objection to the National Sculpture Award given to the Spanish sculptor Eduardo Gregorio at the XVIII Salón [...]

In 1941, the magazine, Argentina Libre [Free Argentina], did a survey of Argentine visual artists on the system of juried shows and art competitions, and whether or not it served to spur artistic production. In this essay, Antonio Berni responds to [...]

In this article the abstract painter and sculptor Manuel Felguérez reviews the Primer Salón Nacional de Pintura[First National Salon of Painting] that included a great number of artists from all the aesthetic trends. The Zacatecan artist notes the [...]