Painting at the Latin American level 1

Painting at the Latin American level 1

Painting at the Latin American level 2

It is a branch through which Latin American culture can be expressed, or also where the author can express his feelings or ideas in order to capture them in a painting, although many of these authors can be inspired by the reality that exists in the country. . Some of these authors that we can mention:

Diego Rivera (1886-1957)

DIEGO RIVERA, is a Mexican painter considered one of the main authors with revolutionary ideas, he is an admirable sculptor. Diego Rivera's paintings show us his passion for the very act of painting, that irreducible and simple act only in appearance, of smearing with the brush the color on the canvas and see how the empty planes disappear and in their place credible forms emerge and we see a painting that emerges from the depths of the earth, and from the intimate connection with the human being who works on it. Diego Rivera is one of the best-known Mexican painters in the world. His passionate and sometimes anguished relationship with the painter and poet Frida Kahlo is today a legend, a dramatic opera that ends in death and is later reborn, in many ways, in the artist's numerous canvases.

Little by little painting has been evolving since the colonial period, as we could see in the past painting where the artists had their own opinion according to their experience; The authors of these paintings identified themselves by their style since they delved into the indigenous roots which made their style more realistic.

Candido Portinari (1903-1962)


In this painting you can see that the painter's style was because more than anything he painted what he felt and what he saw the reality of his people. CANDIDO, is a Brazilian author who, more than anything, paints the reality of his people with a language where he could transmit what he felt through painting; where he dramatically portrays the social and human reality of the country. Brazil has had in Portinari the most moving interpreter, in painting, of the racial elements that, in unjust conditions, cultivate its soils. He entered the Rio School of Fine Arts; In 1928 he won a travel grant that allowed him to visit England, Italy and Spain, and live in Paris until 1930. In this painting you can see that the painter's style because more than anything he painted what he felt and what he saw was reality. from his town. Most of all he works with abstract painting with his experience and study of it in the painting he shows the tragedy of the less disadvantaged people and towns.

In this painting there is a style between classic and modern since it tries to see reality, but in a different way since they are based on classical painting as in the following painting that Latinos increasingly change their style of painting, which can be influenced by the environment in which they live.