Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a review of an exhibition of paintings by young Spanish artists living in exile in Mexico. It remarks on the group’s preference for depth over variety, in keeping with their vision of pondering deeply all aspects of their lives. Their [...]

Laurette Séjourné discusses the work of Ramón Gaya, the Spanish painter and art critic who was living in exile in Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Séjourné remarks that, on closer inspection, Gaya’s paintings appear to be “alive [...]

In this article, Lorenzo Varela reviews the work of two of the artists who took part in a Hispanic-American exhibition: the Mexican painter Juan Soriano, and Mariano Rodríguez Orgaz, the Spaniard living in exile in Mexico. Focusing his critical eye [...]

Based on a visit of the exhibition at the Salón de la Junta de Cultura Española [The Salon of the Board of Spanish Culture] (originally established in Paris in 1939, but later, due to the World War II, relocated to Mexico City), the author reviews [...]