Latin America produced many of the most important modernists of the 20th century. Here were artist who drew on their region’s colonial and indigenous past and its political present to create entirely new forms of public and private art.
Hector Hyppolite created many paintings that are tied to Vodou for the burgeoning Haitian art market of the 1940s.
Architectural Anarchy in Mexico City not only conveys a critique towards the rapid growth of modernist architecture characteristic of changing time in Mexico, but it also challenges Mexican muralism.
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
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.
Latin American geometric abstraction united international principles of modernist abstraction with local cultural traditions, and led to more participatory forms of art.
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
Discover how Argentine and Brazilian artists in the 1940s broke from linear perspective to create art in unique shapes, starting the Concrete Art movement.