Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In his review of the XIX Salón de Arte Venezolano (1958), the critic Perán Erminy notes the ingenious reliance on historical criteria in the arrangement of works selected for the event, from the old landscape masters to the new style of Abstract [...]

In this critical review, the Venezuelan writer Guillermo Meneses reviews the exhibition of works by the Venezuelan painter Alejandro Otero [Rodríguez] that opened on January 30, 1949 at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Otero was living in Paris [...]

In his second open letter to the writer and editor Miguel Otero Silva, the young painter Alejandro Otero Rodríguez, who was a member of Los Disidentes, refers to three statements Otero Silva wrote against Abstract artists. The statements were made [...]

The writer Miguel Otero Silva disputes the statements made by the artist Alejandro Otero protesting the verdict of the jurors of the XVIII Salón Oficial de Arte Venezolano of 1957. He considers three fundamental reasons for his rebuttal: 1) one [...]