Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article examines how Rómulo Gallegos’ writing influenced Luis Guevara Moreno’s painting. The author quotes the painter’s description of producing paintings that illustrate “the setting in a Gallegos story.” Guevara Moreno explains how [...]

In this essay, the Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas defends his beliefs on the subject of the Latin American identity, stating that the only way Latin American communities can survive the unfolding of historical events is by departing from their own [...]

Inocente Palacios, who was the first director of the Escuela de Artes de la Universidad Central [Central University Art School] of Venezuela, suggests that in the twentieth century, and particularly after the Second World War, Latin American art was [...]