Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this document Juan de la Cabada responds to Luis Cardoza y Aragón’s criticism of the first art exhibition organized by the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) [League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists]. At the same time de [...]

The students of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Carlos accuse the “old men” who meet in the Círculo de Escultores—Ignacio Asúnsolo, Juan Olaguíbel, Federico Canessi, José María Fernández Urbina, Luis Ortiz Monasterio, Modesto [...]

In this essay from 1937, Justino Fernández conducts a study on the evolution of Mexican art during the 1920s and 1930s. The text is organized in three large sections: mural painting, general painting and sculpture. Fernández characterizes mural [...]

In 1945 Diego Rivera wrote an article in which he looked back approvingly at the Open-Air Schools that were founded in the 1920s. He disagrees with David Alfaro Siqueiros (who attended one of them), and José Clemente Orozco, who spoke disdainfully [...]