Arte Latino

Mexican and Latin American Muralism

By the 1930s, the Latin Art has been widely influenced the European arts culture and primarily by the Spanish and Russian art movements that were rapidly developing after the industrial revolutions. However, after the 30s of the 20th century, the Latin American art became aware of new approaches and techniques - a combination of its own typical culture mixing it with different political or social factors.

This is how muralism developed and spread in South America - the movement was More

“Reciprocity” Exhibition

Modern art in Spain has had some interesting exhibitions. One of these was an exhibition lasting for three months, from November until January 2010. the exhibition was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Cultural Center of Spain (CCEBA). The exhibition was a joint effort with many artists contributing to this modern exhibition from different countries.

Artists included Claire Fontaine of Pairs, France, Leon Ferrari, Leo Ramos, and Dego Haboba, native Argentinians. Also contributions were present from Oliver Ressler of More

Art based on meaning

Latin american art and artists have a lot of input in Western art today. Whereby once the art form native america, latin america and Africa was seen as “primitive”with its totem poles and african masks it is now welcomed with open arms together with art of western artists around the world.

It would be surprising to many to learn that in 1890 there was a world exhibition of so called “primitive”art as the scientists and artists of the day termed. More

Mexico’s Art Offerings

On a visit to Mexico I was struck by the amount of beautiful art objects that were available. Many were of low costs and were of materials that were easy to find. In particular I liked the tin art works. These were artworks made out of the thin metal of tin and puncuted and painted in order to create an image.

Often the tin artworks had been formed to frame objects and provided decorative additons to functional objects. The tin More

Latin art-Imaginas-Anna Maria Batistozzi

Anna’s artwork here is representative of many Latin American art works. It is called imagina. It seems to have Latin American symbolism and is painted in a contemporary style. There are many colours and movements in the painting. It seems that the figures and backgrounds almost dances off the canvas. The colours are in light shades on a dark background, which goes far to explain why Latin American Art is used so frequently in American culture and media, through marketing More

Watercolour Can Be Great

Watercolour painting, in general, has a less than excellent reputation. It’s not hard to see why, is it? No. The majority of people who paint with watercolours are over the age of sixty, and many of these paint nice local scenes such as churches and cottages, or their favourite Hotel in Looe where they got married. This may be all good and well, but it’s hardly progress. The point is that watercolour is an incredible thing which can be used More

Welcome to Arte Latino

Welcome to Arte Latino! I am an artist who was born and raised in Peru and has since moved to the sprawling metropolis of London to pursue and further my career and creativity. I have, since I moved here realised that there is actually quite a lot of interest in the Latino Art scene, however there doesn’t really seem to be many people actively encouraging it.

So that is what this website is all about, it will have profiles of my favourite artists, tips and tricks that I have picked up in the industry and various other ramblings that come to mind when I am feeling a little bit homesick.

Enjoy!