Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay is on an interview [conducted] by Gabriel Peluffo with the sculptor Germán Cabrera, the artist and performer Teresa Vila, and the painter and engraver Anhelo Hernández. He questions them on the role of the visual arts within the social [...]

The researcher Teresa Soutiño offers in this 1995 essay a short historical summary of the life and work of Mary Brandt and comments on the themes in the drawings included in the exhibition Pinturas, dibujos y grabados 1950–1985. Soutiño states [...]

In Venezuela, curator Katherine Chacón reviews the work of Colombian artist Beatriz González, particularly in reference to her re-creation of artistic masterpieces, in painting, drawing, and objects, since 1962. To do so she establishes connections [...]

In this essay, Francisco Da Antonio discusses the career of the Venezuelan naïf painter Elsa Morales, whom he discovered, promoted, and studied. The essay refers to the major reviews of her exhibitions, beginning with the first one in 1969 (written [...]

In her criticism, Gloria Carnevali states that her approach to the work of the Venezuelan painter and printmaker Mercedes Pardo sets a priority on assessing “the spatial problems.” She believes this focus enables “a greater enjoyment and [...]

This document is a reflexive text in the style of a curriculum vitae, written by Beatriz González in 1973 about her own work over her lifetime. The first paragraph refers to irony as the identifying stamp of her painting, which can be seen as a [...]