Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this introductory essay for the II Salón de Arte ExxonMobil de Venezuela (2003), the critic Carlos Maldonado Bourgoin discusses the history of landscape art in Venezuela, recalling the aboriginal inhabitants whom, according to the author, saw the [...]

Gloria Posada presents an overview of the work of Adolfo Bernal, who like Posada, was a Colombian artist. Bernal’s work consisted of ephemeral urban art projects—created or installed in public spaces—that were different from “the concept of a [...]

This interview with Carlos Cruz-Diez by historian José María Salvador focuses on the way the artist’s work intengrates architecture, either as a general subject matter or regarding his urban productions. The interview addresses questions like the [...]

In the second part of his extensive review of the Exposición del Paisaje Venezolano, which took place in 1942 at the Museo de Bellas Artes of Caracas, Enrique Planchart analyzes some of the twentieth-century painters of his country, each of which he [...]

In this text, French-Swiss architect and urbanist Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, recounts the experiences he had during his first trip to Brazil (1929). He describes the aerial view of Rio de Janeiro and the “favelas”—the [...]