Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a generally favorable review of the work of caricaturist and prolific draftsman Pepe Gómez. Rafael Tavera, artist and author of this text, states that he would like to see an exhibition of Gómez’s work, which is featured in “a number of [...]

The text “Reflexiones sobre arte: el intelectualismo y la evolución estética en Colombia” [Reflections on Art: Intellectualism and the Aesthetic Evolution in Colombia] proclaims that the fine arts in Colombia have failed. According to painter [...]

In this text, Colombian painter and critic Rafael Tavera analyzes the objective and the subjective tendencies in art, the two strains operative at the time. The first encompasses those artists who consider art imitation and direct interpretation of [...]