García Uriburu’s Coloration of the Grand Canal, Venice was a playful and innovative approach to painting that involved dying the Venice canals green.
Latin American Modernism: c. 1920 – 1960
Diego Rivera's enormous mural cycle at the Ministry of Public Education celebrates Mexico: its festivals, its industries, and its people in over 100 panels
Diego Rivera, first and second floor murals ...
City planner Lùcio Costa’s graphic design for an ideal city was combined with architect Oscar Niemeyer’s artistic prowess and provocative use of concrete.
Building Brasília
Latin American geometric abstraction united international principles of modernist abstraction with local cultural traditions, and led to more participatory forms of art.
Geometric Abstraction in South America, an introduction
How do you create perfectly straight edges in paint? See how Brazilian and Argentinian Concrete Artists did in this video from the Getty Museum
The Challenge of a Straight Line – ...
From the Getty Museum, discover how Brazilian Concrete Artists engaged with a rapidly industrializing culture by using the entire range of industrial paints developed in the 20th century
Painting in an Industrial Age – the ...
Discover how Argentine and Brazilian artists in the 1940s broke from linear perspective to create art in unique shapes, starting the Concrete Art movement.
Breaking the Frame – the Concrete Art ...
Francisco Goitia's image of universal suffering confronts us directly
Francisco Goitia, Tata Jesucristo
There is no “right way” to read this mural because there is no clear beginning or end to the story. The viewer is required to construct their own history of Mexico
The History of Mexico: Diego Rivera’s Murals ...
Parangolés demand to be worn and moved in.
Hélio Oiticica, Parangolés
Over the course of more than three centuries, the Portuguese colony of Brazil bought and exploited the largest number of African slaves in the Americas.
An Antidote for Social Amnesia: The Memory ...
Parente’s stitched statement reads both as a praise to her national and linguistic roots and as a critical response to the socio-political situation of Brazil.
Letícia Parente, Marca registrada
Who are these strange mutant creatures? The Eternal Presence depicts a majestic, ambiguous creature in the center accompanied by two fantastical, mythical beings.
Wifredo Lam, The Eternal Presence
Modern architecture in Mexico and Brazil adapts the ideas of Le Corbusier in surprising and important ways.
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Beyond Europe, mapping the origins of Brazilian modernism.
The origins of modern art in São ...
Frida Kahlo painted 55 self-portraits, demonstrating the importance of this genre to her artistic oeuvre.
Frida Kahlo, introduction
A brutal history told for a modern American city, Mexican muralism in New York
Diego Rivera’s Sugar Cane
Rivera celebrates indigenous culture, but also points to poverty in this melancholy painting of a flower seller.
Diego Rivera, Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de ...
Why was the original version of this mural at New York’s Rockefeller Center destroyed within months of its creation?
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