Arte Latino

Moving pictures

Art can come in many forms and doesn’t always have to involve paint on canvas. Take films, for example. Now I’m not suggesting that “Scary Movie 4” could be considered art – more likely a candidate for burning with gas oil – but many independent movies could and should be considered as works of art in their own right; everything from the cinematography to the musical score, from the costumes to the performances of the actors involve art and Latino movies are starting to get themselves noticed by some of the most influential people in the film industry.

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Get back to your culture with art tuition

Art is an essential part of our culture and who we are. Art represents all of the things that are important to us or that play a role in our lives. Art speaks to our dreams and our hopes, and also to our fears and nightmares. Different cultures value different things, and this is often openly represented in the art that they produce.
Art tuition, whether undertaken formally at a university or art school, or whether done under a More

Perfect present

I may moan about my boyfriend most of the time – how he always leaves the toilet seat up, spends too much time and money in the pub with his mates and would rather watch football than talk to his loving and devoted girlfriend – but every now and then he does something so spectacularly wonderful and sweet that I forgive him all his faults in one fell swoop.

It was my birthday last week, and he’d been dropping hints More

Paraguay: South America’s undiscovered tourist destination

Santa Maria De Fe is a very interesting town in the south of Paraguay. In this region of South America there are many towns that started off as Jesuit missions. Santa Maria De Fe is one of these, however, nowadays most of these towns have been modernised to some extent. That is to say that if you go there you will see the Jesuit influence in the layout of the town with the church and town square at the centre More

Mexican Soaps

While checking online for office supplies uk, a colleague showed me a piece of Latin art. He began to analyse and talk about the piece with so much passion. He also showed me a piece of painting by a Mexican artist and explained how the art work connects with the history of Mexicans. After a while, he noticed that I was not saying anything and asked me to share information on my art collections. He knows that I have More

Psychedelic Art Movement

While checking out some really nice jewellery for a planned purchase later this year my friends were engaged in an intense argument about Psychedelic art and its influence of the culture of the seventies. I knew very little about the art form so I did some digging online and was surprised at what I learnt.

The Psychedelic Art Movement is closely associated with the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and popularity of hallucinogenic drugs. The term psychedelic refers More

The first lady of Mexican art

You couldn’t really have a blog about all things Latin American and not have at least one post dedicated to the Queen of Mexican art, Frida Kahlo. It is almost too difficult to do justice to her paintings in words; you simply have to see them in the flesh to appreciate their beauty. It’s like trying to explain what a Sarah Jane Szikora print looks like to someone who’s never seen a piece of her work before!
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Mexican culture – in London

Much as it would be great to travel across the Atlantic to learn about Mexican culture and art in Mexico itself, not all of us have the few thousand pounds we need to get there. Instead, we have to settle for a few tortillas and margaritas on a Friday night with our friends, wandering round a Frida Kahlo exhibition in town or treating ourselves to a piece of “authentic” London-made Mexican jewellery.

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Artists Getting Inspiration from Volunteering

Volunteer in Cusco, Peru, the gateway to Machu Picchu. Stay in the centre of town and help this enchanting but impoverished community by improving schools, working with children and local homes. You’ll get the opportunity to stay in a local hostel or a 4 man tent so long as you don’t mind roughing it.

Cusco is a small town at an elevation of 11,150 feet. It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere (a few hours by plane from the More

Art and the Environment

Art can take many forms. Painting, writing, photography and sculpting are all classed as art but there are many other forms of art; encouraging debate from enthusiasts and theorists based around what qualifies as an art piece. For centuries, great thinkers have debated the question ‘What is art?’ and while some progress has been made there still remain many questions. This is because of the fluidity surrounding art. Art remains quite an elusive topic. This means that a person could More