Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this short newspaper review of the XI Salón de Arte Venezolano, the critic Rafael Pineda quotes from conversations he had with some of the young artists mentioned by the jury, including Mario Abreu, Lourdes Armas, Alirio Oramas, and R& [...]

This newspaper article reproduces the letter from the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez in which he rejects the 1st Prize in Painting awarded at the Exposición Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1972. In the letter, Pérez sets forth the reasons [...]

Journalist Mingui Betancourt explains the origin, creative process, and intention behind the works created by Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez (b. 1929) for the exhibition Humor rehecho [Humor Remade]. The text offers a brief summary of the artist’ [...]

In this newspaper interview, José Ratto Ciarlo talks to the painter Régulo Pérez, eliciting his thoughts concerning Venezuelan artists exiled in Paris and other parts of the world, the total lack of a “Venezuelan art” as such, and Picasso’s [...]

[In this text], Bélgica Rodríguez critically analyzes the innovative ideas of Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez, in both national and international spheres. The curator and critic describes some of the characteristics of his artistic process, [...]

[In this text], critic Roberto Guevara analyzes the work of Régulo Pérez. In his analysis, Guevara compares the artistic process of this Venezuelan artist with that of Jacobo Borges; this process began vehemently and crudely, but once his urgency [...]

In this essay, researcher Ivette Villarreal offers a partial chronology on specific works produced by the Venezuelan artist Régulo Pérez from 1968, describing the series of sketches and notes he made in situ at the construction of the Guri Dam. She [...]

In this text, Régulo Pérez explains the significance and repercussions on both artistic and intellectual levels of having illustrated the “Entrevistas imaginarias” section of the Venezuelan newspaper Últimas Noticias, which featured imaginary [...]

In this text, Rafael Pineda analyzes the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez during the 1980s. The themes that stand out in this work are related to nature: flora, fauna and landscapes situated in a cultural milieu. This [...]

Here, the critic Juan Calzadilla analyzes the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez, starting with the artist’s adherence to figurative art. The text even clarifies that this is a contemporary artist who has developed his work within [...]

The interviewers delve into Régulo Pérez’s work and the artist offers them a brief description of his artwork, referring to the number of works he produces each year and expressing his opinion on the salons, admitting to their importance in [...]

In this critical analysis, Rafael Pineda considers the influence of the Orinoco River on the artwork of Régulo Pérez. The writer emphasizes the importance of that context, which involved the early years of the artist’s life, in [...]

The critic Víctor Guédez reviews the work of Régulo Pérez and compares the formal changes and innovations he sees in this Venezuelan visual artist’s work with his earlier material. Guédez stresses the consistency of the artist’s message, [...]

Journalist Jesús Sanoja Hernández analyzes (describes, assesses, studies) the part of Régulo Pérez’s artistic production as a humorist. He defines his characteristic sense of humor, filled with “historical ironies” and “working-class [...]

The sociologist Oswaldo Barreto discusses Régulo Pérez’s artistic body of work, beginning with a description of the latter’s search for meaning and his felicitous introduction to the city of Caracas. Barreto provides a chronological review that [...]

Carlos Yusti offers a journalistic summary of Régulo Pérez’s career. The author comments on various phases and key events that nurtured his creative process; for example, he began as a painter for the lottery of animals, providing the [...]

This unsigned newspaper article [dated September 2, 1960,] comments on the detention in México of the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. As a result, 90 Mexican visual artists withdrew from participating in the Second [Inter-American] Painting and [...]

Journalist Elisabeth Pérez Luna describes the audiovisual show produced at Parque Central in the framework of the III Conferencia del Mar and interviews its creator and producer, Jacobo Borges. Pérez Luna explains that the show entailed a [...]

This essay by the critic and curator Roberto Guevara appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition 10 pintores venezolanos de la nueva figuración. In his opinion, figuration has gone down the same cyclical and unstable path as all the other [...]

The Venezuelan art historian Bélgica Rodríguez takes a look at the art produced in her country. According to her, twentieth-century Venezuelan art began with the landscape painters who were active in the early part of the century. She [...]