Latin American Modernism
A catchall term that includes the many developments in art across Latin America in the first eight decades of the 20th century.
Latin American Modernism
A catchall term that includes the many developments in art across Latin America in the first eight decades of the 20th century.
Basics to get you started
Latin American art, an introduction
Mexican muralism: Los Tres Grandes—David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
The origins of modern art in São Paulo, an introduction
Frida Kahlo, an introduction
Geometric abstraction in South America, an introduction
Breaking the frame—the Concrete Art movement
Painting in an industrial age—the Concrete Art movement
The challenge of a straight line—the Concrete Art movement
Scenes of the Alameda Central of Mexico City
Graciela Iturbide, photographing Mexico
Performance art, an introduction
Works of Art
Artists
Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 m (Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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![Wifredo Lam, The Eternal Presence (also known as The Eternal Present [Homage to Alejandro García Caturla]), 1944, oil and pastel over papier-mâché and chalk ground on bast fiber fabric, 216.5 x 195.9 cm (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design)](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/51891552083_29084852e7_o-copy-2048x878.jpg)
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