[FOCUS] Felipe Jesús Consalvos produced a vast body of collages on paper, furniture, musical instruments, and other objects. His compositions combine popular culture iconography and a range of found materials, including photographs, magazine pages, banknotes, and printed matter extracted from the universe of tobacco products, such as cigar bands and box labels. His work speaks…
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The works in this section depict human and animal bodies. Although created with different artistic techniques and styles, they all suggest a tense, agitated condition or sense of restlessness. Francisco da Silva, an indigenous Brazilian painter from the Amazon, created a bestiary of bright colors and contorted lines, referring to mystical visions of nature. The…
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[FOCUS] In the 1920s and 1930s, Brazilian modernism established a close relationship with so-called popular and non-European sources. After the 1930s, however, artists with no formal training — such as Djanira da Motta e Silva, Heitor dos Prazeres, and Alfredo Volpi — started to gain visibility. Art critics and art institutions began to refer to…
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The construction of modern cities in the Americas perpetuates a history of exclusion. To the promises of modernization and emancipation, the postcolonial societal order responds with new strategies of control and segregation. Monumental planned cities such as Washington, DC, and Brasilia are the apex of such practices; they employ different urban architectural idioms to represent…
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[FOCUS] Martín Ramírez is one of the best-known Latino artists in the United States whose work is present in the collections of some of the most important museums in the country. Yet, his approximately 450 drawings and collages produced from within the confines of various California psychiatric institutions are often seen as outsider art, a…
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The works in this section relate to Afro-diasporic religious cultures in the Americas and their manifestations in Brazil (Candomblé and Umbanda) and in Haiti (Vodou). Many of the artists included in this section practiced these religions and incorporated their beliefs and knowledge into their works from a first-person perspective. The title of this section refers…
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[FOCUS] With the exception of a painting donated to El Museo del Barrio by the family of the collector and art historian Barbara Duncan, all of the works by Andrés Curruchich in this section were kindly provided by the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena (Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Costumes) in Guatemala City as virtual loans to…
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The works in this section can be classified as genre paintings; they depict figures engaged in ordinary work or leisure activities or in indoors spaces. Although these paintings could be read in relation to classical European art history, specifically Dutch interior paintings, we brought them together here because they include references to the artists’ biographies…
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