Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

André Salmon introduces Lola Cueto’s work by referring to certain moments that he considers important. He suggests that Edouard Manet’s painting, La Muerte de Maximiliano [The Death of Maximilian], was Mexico’s debut in the visual arts. [...]

In this text, André Salmon considers the paintings of the young Guatemalan artist, Carlos Mérida, and their appeal to Parisian audiences, while also expressing nationalist sentiments specific to Guatemala. Salmon begins by recounting how young [...]

This brief article from the Mexican newspaper El Universal Ilustrado reports on the Lola Velásquez Cueto exhibition of tapestries that opened in Paris on February 6, 1929. The article reproduces the first paragraph of the introduction to the [...]