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James Edmund Allen (February 23, 1894 – September 9, 1964) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and painter.His works include a significant body of lithographs and etchings showing steelworkers, pipe workers, and other aspects of American industrial life, carefully composed compositions depicting "the daily heroism of America's industrial workers."
Jessica Kairé (born 1980), sculptor, installation artist; Alfred Julio Jensen (1903–1981), abstract painter; Jorge de León (born 1976), performance artist; Aníbal López (born 1964), painter, performance artist, photography, videographer; Carlos Mérida (1891–1984) Rafael Rodríguez Padilla (1890–1929), painter, printmaker, sculptor
Indochristian art (Spanish: arte indocristiano), is a type of Latin American art that combines European colonial influences with Indigenous artistic styles and traditions. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Franciscan , Dominican , and Augustinian monks extensively converted indigenous peoples to Christianity, introducing them to ...
Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th century.
Body painting, rock art, hide painting flourished in ancient North America, as well as painting on ceramics, textiles, and other surfaces. Ancestral Puebloans ( Anasazi ) of the American Southwest have a longstanding tradition of painting interior murals and ceramics, as did the Mogollon culture , ancestors of Zuni and Hopi tribes, who lived in ...
Votive painting go by several names in Mexico, some of which overlap with other artworks or offerings. A common name is ex voto. This phrase comes from Latin and means from the vow made. This refers to the fact that many of these paintings are made and brought to churches or other holy sites to fulfill a vow made to the religious persona.
Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3980-9. Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521–1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2008. Fernández, Justino (1965). Mexican Art. Mexico D.F.: Spring Books. Frank, Patrick, ed. Readings in Latin American ...
James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist. Hampton worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly .