Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

A farewell letter to Argentinian writer Leopoldo Marechal (1900–1970), as a result of his departure for Europe, written in neocriollo [neo-Creole] by the Argentinian artist Xul Solar [...]

Xul Solar, after analyzing and interpreting the works of Argentinean painter Emilio Pettoruti and reviewing his biographical information, perceives him as “fathering” the impending Criollo art. Xul understands that his work is still in [...]

Xul Solar analyzes the work of Argentinian painter Emilio Pettoruti, whom he considers “one of the fathers of future Criollo art which now is being born”, as “the Criollo avant-garde towards the future.” Such a Criollo future [...]

The article explains the characteristics of Emilio Pettoruti’s work and his nature as an artist. At the same time Xul Solar considers him one of the representatives “of our future art,” “a starting point for our own artistic [...]

This article affirms the connection of the work of the Argentinean painter Emilio Pettoruti to distinct schools of the European vanguard; although, it is not possible to relegate his work to any one of them. On the contrary, the art of Pettoruti is, [...]

Xul Solar’s version in neoCreole languange of a selected text from Stufen (Stages) (1918) by the German poet, Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914 [...]