Latin American Painting
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The Latin American world is known for the art of painting. This type
art is very old and has always been present in its history. By
For several centuries, painting has showcased the creativity of people and the
representations have been of great wealth and fame. However, the painting
tells stories of everyday life and also of beliefs of the
painters. Painting in this way is very important because the
the viewer can realize the culture of the painters and of the
influence of these works. I became interested in painting
Latin America during the time I was visiting art museums ago
five years. Since then, I am interested in researching painters
Latin Americans and discover more about the culture of painters and their
influences on society.
Latin American painters express different perspectives on visual art.
using examples from their own cultures to relate or convey messages to
spectator. That's why you can learn a lot from the beliefs of the
Latin American painters, especially the painters of the 20th century. Their ideas
about politics, daily life, and the social structure are expressed by the
ink, the scene and the symbols of their works. When looking at the paintings of some
Latin American artists in museums, I was realizing that the art of
Painting is not only aesthetic. Therefore, I have decided to investigate.
the three most well-known Latin American painters of the 20th century: Fernando
Botero, Frida KahloyDiego Rivera. The three painters made paintings with the
intention to express stories and convey messages to the viewer. They have also
influenced American culture.
Visual art especiallythe works of the painters Botero, Kahlo and
Riverahas impacted the way I see Latin American culture.
I learned various aspects of a foreign culture through its works. For me,
learning more about the culture is a fundamental part of understanding the
Spanish language and those who speak it. I learned more about the artists in my
search for information on Latin American culture.
Also, the way I decipher visual art has changed by looking
works of Latin America. In the museums when reading the descriptions, one can
understand more about the history and culture of various eras and countries.
The stories of Latin American painters of the 20th century are hidden.
on their canvases. Botero, Kahlo, and Rivera tell different stories with their
own styles. By researching these painters, one can learn more about life
of the countries of these painters and their ideas.
HISTORY
Latin American art is the combination of artistic expressions
own toSouth America,Central AmericaThe CaribbeanyMexicojust as
also from Latin Americans living in other regions. It starts
properly with the arrival atAmericaof the townsLatinosfrom
from Europe (Spaniards,PortugueseItalians,French.Although there was
before the arrival of the Latinos, a broad artistic development on the part of
the different indigenous cultures that inhabited the continent before the
Spanish invasion in the 16th century, and these would influence developments.
regional artistic, they cannot be classified as 'Latin American' anymore.
that these towns did not speak oneLatin language,but a language of its own.
The art of these peoples is classified, rather, aspre-Columbian.
Latin American Painters
Roberto Matta, Chile
He was a Chilean painter, architect, poet, and humanist born on the 11th of
November 1911; a date that he used symbolically in several of his
paintings (11-11-11). He is considered the last of the surrealists. At the end of
at 30 he traveled to Europe, where he met the writer Gabriela Mistral, who
he helped him settle in the old continent. He had interaction with André
Breton and Salvador Dalí, which can be observed in his style when painting.
Similarly, he has been identified as the creator of the concept "infrarrealism".
since he coined it in 1940, after Breton expelled him from surrealism.
Xul Solar, Argentina
He is one of the most eccentric Argentine painters. He was a writer, sculptor,
painter and inventor of imaginary languages. Likewise, he was a frequent
reader and practitioner of occult sciences, astrology, and mythologies. Their relationship
With Jorge Luis Borges, his work became more known. He was born in 1887.
and in 1939 he set out to design astrological charts. His work Rua Ruini,
reproduced above, shows his concerns about ideologies
through which humanity has attempted to traverse, representing them as
a series of walls through which many have tried to see the light.
Antonio Seguí, Argentina
Córdoba painter born in 1934, known as "El Gallego Seguí". Usually
express a social critique in their works, this with shades of irony and
humor. At times his works refer to American comics, but
always with grotesque and ironic characters. The main theme of his works
Throughout his career, it revolves around the urban human seeking his
place in a world that seems to demand the coupling of the subject to
context, with a specific place and role in society.
José Gurvich, Uruguay
In 1927, in a village called Jiezna, Lithuania, was born into a
Jewish family under the name of Zusmanas Gurvicius. In 1932, he emigrated to
Uruguay where he could quickly adapt to the life of the country. He is a figure
central to the aesthetics of Constructive Universalism in Uruguay, in which
it attempts to represent the human being in accordance with the cosmos, thus
as the metaphysical dimensions of human existence.
Saturnino Herrán, Mexico
Strictly speaking, this painter is a bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries; he was born in
Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1887, and died very young in 1918, at only
31 years old. It is referred to as a bridge because it was a precursor of
aesthetic and ideological discourse that permeated art in the years following
the Mexican Revolution. He is identified as an indigenist painter and was a
painter of great talent and technique to depict scenes of Mexico
pre-Columbian. His painting style has been associated several times with painters
Spaniards like Velázquez.
Fernando Botero, Colombia
This Colombian painter, born in Medellín in 1932, is one of the painters.
more identifiable by their figurative painting, where the subjects are obese or
of curves and filled faces; what has already been termed as 'Boterismo'.
Currently, he is one of the most valued and famous living painters in the world.
world. In his role as a sculptor, he has been prolific and many of his
sculpture characteristics are spread all over the world in countries
like Israel, Spain, Colombia, and Armenia.
Wifredo Lam, Cuba
Painter of Asian and African descent who was raised on the island of Cuba.
young man had the opportunity to travel to Madrid to study art, and, at
to train in Europe in the early years of the 1920s
earlier, it became imbued with cubist and surrealist aesthetics, making its work a
synthesis of these artistic currents, resulting in a painting
sensible, oriented towards European avant-gardes but with a tropical touch of
Lam. He was a recognized character, to the point of befriending Breton.
and the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Leonor Fini, Argentina
She was born in Argentina in 1907, but was raised in Trieste, Italy. At the age of
17 years old, moved to Milan and later to Paris. He is one of the most
strongholds of Surrealism, along with Max Ernst, Paul Éluard, and Salvador Dalí.
Another of her facets was writing and illustrating, reaching the point of illustrating works.
by Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Shakespeare. Fini's aesthetics vary a
little among his works. The work reproduced above, Heliodora with colors.
brilliant, contrasts with works like The Angel to Anatomy from 1949,
where darkness and harshness refer to representations of death in
the Middle Ages. She is one of the great surrealist painters of the 20th century, along with
with Leonora Carrington.
Luis Felipe Noé, Argentina
Painter adhered to the current of Argentine neo-expressionism and born in
1933, he is also a highly respected intellectual and writer in the world of
art and culture. As a curious fact, he is the father of Gaspar Noé, director
Argentinian who directed Irreversible with Monica Bellucci. Luis Felipe Noé is from
the most transgressive painters of the time. In 1965, he published a text
theoretical called Antiesthetics, in addition to an experimental novel,
call Recontrapoder, where it has theoretical and philosophical approaches
about fragmentation, the absurd, power, and aesthetics.
WORKS OF ART
Troubadour
Value: 7.2 million dollars during a Christie ’s auction (29 of
May 2008.
America
Value: 6 million dollars during a Sotheby's auction (18 of
November 2008.
"Roots" (1943) Frida Kahlo
Value: 5.6 million dollars during a Sotheby’s auction (May of
2006).
Self-Portrait
Value: 5 million dollars during a Sotheby’s auction (June 1
from 2000).