Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Pedro Figari wrote this letter to José Cúneo, who had recently shown his paintings at a joint exhibition with Bernabé Michelena in Montevideo (1918). The letter, published in the newspaper La Mañana, was Figari’s public recognition of the young [...]

This is a letter sent by the Uruguayan artist Pedro Figari to writer Alberto Zum Felde at the magazine La Pluma, which the latter directed. It is recognition by the famed artist, lawyer, and philosopher of the magazine’s cosmopolitanism, Latin [...]

In March 1919, after the First World War, Dr. Pedro Figari wrote an open letter to the president of the República Oriental del Uruguay, Dr. Baltasar Brum (who held that office twice, from 1919 to 1923, and from 1931 to 1933, when he committed [...]

In this article, the Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari (1868-1938) criticized the educational system in Argentina, and consequently all of Latin America, because it does not provide the practical, scientific, or industrial training that is necessary for [...]

Pedro Figari explains the difficulties to both develop and become interested in emotional art, which requires a thoughtful and meditative interior life, in view of aspects of the present society; “all seems to be prone against poetic manners, [and [...]

This text consists of Pedro Figari’s response to the following questions posed by the journal Martín Fierro:1- Do you believe that there is such a thing as an Argentine sensibility and/or mentality? 2- If so, what are their characteristics? Figari [...]

The Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari highlights the methods of teaching art to children in Mexico and its results, while appreciating the paintings exhibited at the Salón Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art] exhibition [...]

Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari criticizes the educational system of South American countries for not providing people the necessary skills for industrial development, an aspect considered essential to the development of a nation [...]

Pedro Figari was of the opinion that the revival of “our [Latin American] tradition” was not only an ethical cause, but was also “useful” since “through this revival there are enormous resources for our art.” Figari states that this task [...]