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Art show in US (1915-1995)

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With the release of the film "Frida," which chronicled the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, audiences all over the world discovered what until now was the knowledge of only a few: Latin America has produced some of the most innovative, exciting and relevant artists in the contemporary art world.

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Here is a link to the video we watched in class,  the season 8 episode of artists from Mexico City:
Natalia Almada
Minerva Cuevas
Damien Ortega
Pedro Reyes

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In this episode, artists exit their homes and studios to use the growing megalopolis as their canvas. The artists present everyday materials as artworks, mine recognizable images for their poetic potential, and take their art to the streets.

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Executive Producer: Eve Moros Ortega. Host: Claire Danes. Director: Deborah Dickson. Producer: Ian Forster. Editor: Kate Taverna. Art21 Executive Director: Tina Kukielski. Curator: Wesley Miller. Director of Production: Nick Ravich. Structure Consultant: Véronique Bernard. Director of Photography: Pedro Gomez Millan & Hatuey Viveros. Additional Photography: Ulli Bonnekamp, Robert Humphreys, Masami Fujita, John Marton, Masiar Pasquali, & Pietro de Tilla. Assistant Camera: Paul Lima, Mauricio Rodríguez, & Bernabé Salinas. Sound: Baruch Arias Kexolli, Brian Copenhagen, & Theresa Radka. Production Assistant: René Hope, Antonio Pérez Sánchez, & Guglielmo Trupia. Driver: Ricardo Jacuinde Villeda & José Luis Loyo. Translation: Manuel Alcalá & Paulina Pardo Gaviria.

Title/Motion Design: Afternoon Inc. Composer: Joel Pickard. Online Editor: Don Wyllie. Re-Recording Mix: Tony Pipitone. Sound Edit: Neil Cedar & Jay Fisher. Artwork Animation: Anita H.M. Yu. Assistant Editor: Maria Habib, Leana Siochi, Christina Stiles, & Bahron Thomas.

Host Introduction | Creative Consultant: Tucker Gates. Director of Photography: Pete Konczal. Second Camera: Jon Cooper. Key Grip: Chris Wiesehahn. Gaffer: Jesse Newton. First Assistant Camera: Sara Boardman & Shane Duckworth. Sound: James Tate. Set Dresser: Jess Coles. Hair: Peter Butler. Makeup: Matin. Production Assistant: Agatha Lewandowski & Melanie McLean. Editor: Ilya Chaiken.

Artworks Courtesy of: Natalia Almada; Minerva Cuevas; Damián Ortega; Pedro Reyes; Altamura Films; American Documentary | POV; Colección Jumex; Icarus Films; El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura; kurimanzutto; LABOR; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Presented at Museo Jumex; Women Make Movies; Carlos Aguirre; Kenneth Bostock; Claudia Fernández; Thomas Glassford; Paulina Lasa; Néstor Quiñones; Felice Varini; & Héctor Zamora. Acquired Photography: Animal Político; Hammer Museum; Kadist Art Foundation; Simplemente; Laureana Toledo; & VernissageTV.

Special Thanks: The Art21 Board of Trustees; Michael Aglion; Daniela Alatorre; Adriana Barraza; Betty Briceño; Cactus Films; Pat Casteel; Pamela Echeverría; Christina Faist; Carla Fernández; The Galleries at Moore; Héctor Galván; Alejandro Gonzalez Palafox; Lorenzo Hagerman; Hammer Museum; HangarBicocca; Headlands Center for the Arts; Alejandro de Icaza; Jenette Kahn; José Kuri; Andrea Leal Montemayor; Sheila Lynch; Alejandro Machorro; Gabriela Maldonado Miquelerena; Mónica Manzutto; Tony Moxham; Museo de la Ciudad de México; Proyecto Siqueiros - La Tallera; Mónica Reina; Olga Rodríguez; Carlos Rossini; Diana Salier; Keith Shapiro; Mary Ann Toman; & Steve Wylie.

Additional Art21 Staff: Maggie Albert; Lindsey Davis; Joe Fusaro; Jessica Hamlin; Jonathan Munar; Bruno Nouril; Pauline Noyes; Kerri Schlottman; & Diane Vivona.

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Dedicated To: Susan Sollins, Art21 Founder.

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El Salvador

Noe Canjura (1922–1970)

Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué)

Guatemala

Rodolfo Abularach (born 1933), painter, printmaker

Ricardo Almendáriz (fl. 1787), draftsman

José Luis Álvarez (1919–2012), painter

Margarita Azurdia (1931–1998), sculptor, painter

Andrés Curruchich (1891–1969), painter

Darío Escobar (born 1971), sculptor

Regina José Galindo

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

Carlos Mauricio Valenti Perrillat (1888–1912), painter

Rafael Yela Günther (1888–1942), painter, sculptor

Efraín Recinos (1928–2011), painter, sculptor, architect

Nicaragua

Pablo Antonio Cuadra, graphic artist

Omar D'León, painter

Franck de Las Mercedes, artist

Armando Morales, painter

Hugo Palma-Ibarra, painter

Gabriel Traversari, painter

Julio Valle Castillo, painter

Ernesto Cardenal, poet

Panama

Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, writer (1922)

Chafil Cheucarama, Wounaan painter, carver, and illustrator

Guillermo Trujillo, painter (1927)

José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer, photographer (1971)

Antonio Jose Guzman

Alfredo Sinclair, painter (1915)

Olga Sinclair, painter

Rosa María Britton artist, writer.

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Argentina

Roberto Aizenberg (1928–1996)

Antonio Alice (1886–1943)

Antonio Berni (1905–1981)

Elda Cerrato

José Cuneo (born 1965)

León Ferrari (born 1920)

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968)

Alfredo Guttero (1882-1932)

Esteban Lisa (1895-1983)

Cándido López (1840–1902)

Rebeca Mendoza (1967)

Florencio Molina Campos (1891–1959)

Marta Minujín (born 1944)

Marcelo Pombo (born 1959)

Alfredo Prior (born 1952)

Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977)

Xul Solar (1887–1963)

Raúl Soldi

Manuel Zorrilla (born 1919)

Grete Stern (born 1904)

Bolivia

Roberto Berdecio (1910–1996), muralist, painter, printmaker

Gonzalo Condarco, sculptor

Alfredo Da Silva (born 1935), painter and photographer

Alejandra Dorado (born 1969), installation and performance artist

Charlene Eckels (born 1988), painter

Sonia Falcone (born 1965), painter

Graciela Rodo Boulanger (born 1935), painter and printmaker

Roberto Mamani Mamani, painter

Master of Calamarca (early 18th century), painter

Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores (born 1935), painter

Marina Núñez del Prado (c. 1910–1995), sculptor

María Luisa Pacheco (1919–1982), painter and illustrator

Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (1899–1950), painter

Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550–1616), sculptor

Gastón Ugalde (born 1946)

Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960), painter and printmaker

Brazil

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1878)

Aleijadinho (1730–1814)

Artur Barrio (born 1945)

Amílcar de Castro (1920–2002)

Alain-Marcel Linse (born 1956)

Anita Malfatti (1889–1964)

Alfredo Volpi (born Italian)

Cândido Portinari (1903–1962)

Cildo Meireles (born 1948)

Cybèle Varela (born 1943)

Di Cavalcanti (1897–1976)

Guy Veloso (born 1969)

Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980)

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850–1899)

Ismael Nery (1900–1934)

Lasar Segall (1891–1957)

Lygia Clark (1920–1988)

Lygia Pape (1927–2004)

Oswaldo Goeldi (1895–1961)

Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973)

Vik Muniz (born 1961)

Naza (born 1955)

Chile

Roberto Matta, Chile

Carlos Catasse (1944–2010)

Santos Chávez (1934–2001), printmaker

Marta Colvin (1907–1995)

Eugenio Cruz Vargas (1923–2014)

Juan Davila

Guillermo Deisler (1940–1995)

Marcela Donoso (1961–)

Freddy Flores Knistoff (1948–)

Alfredo Jaar (1956–)

Pedro Lira (1845–1912)

Roberto Matta (1911–2002)

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), Chilean-American

Camilo Mori (1896–1973)

José Manuel Ramírez Rosales (1804–1877)

Thomas Somerscales (1842–1927)

Catalina Parra (1940–), political/feminist conceptual artist[3]

Colombia

Julio Abril (1912–1979)

Débora Arango

Fernando Botero (born 1932)

Antonio Caro (born 1950)

Juan Fernando Cobo (born 1959)

Danilo Dueñas (born 1956)

Miguel de la Espriella "Noble" (born 1947)

Carlos Jacanamijoy (born 1964), painter

Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo

Enrique Grau (1920–2004)

Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954)

Édgar Negret

Alejandro Obregón (1920–1992)

Omar Rayo (1928–2010)

Bernardo Ríos (born 1959)

Pedro Restrepo

Ecuador

Aníbal Villacís (born 1927)

Araceli Gilbert (1913–1993)

Caesar Andrade Faini (born 1913)

Camilo Egas (1889–1962)

Eduardo Kingman (1913–1998)

Enrique Tábara (born 1930)

Estuardo Maldonado (born 1930)

Félix Arauz (born 1935)

Gonzalo Amancha (born 1948)

Gonzalo Endara Crow (1936–1996)

Grace Polit

Hugo Cifuentes (photographer)

Jorge Velarde (born 1960)

José Carreño (born 1947)

Juan Villafuerte (1945–1977)

Judith Gutiérrez (1927–2003)

Luis Miranda (born 1932)

Luis Molinari-Flores (born 1929)

Manuel Rendón (1894–1992)

Marcos Restrepo (born 1961)

Miguel Betancourt (born 1958)

Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999)

Oswaldo Moncayo (1923–1984)

Oswaldo Viteri (born 1931)

Ramón Piaguaje (born 1962)

Theo Constanté (born 1934)

Xavier Blum Pinto (born 1957)

Peru

Victor Turpo

Pablo Amaringo

Martín Chambi, photographer

Alberto Dávila

Victor Delfín

Fernando De Szyszlo

Daniel Hernández (painter)

Hugo Orellana Bonilla

Carlos Enrique Polanco

Diego Quispe Tito

José Sabogal

Josué Sánchez

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao (1635–1710), painter

Fernando de Szyszlo

Elena Tejada-Herrera

Mario Testino, photographer

Tilsa Tsuchiya

Mario Urteaga Alvarado

Boris Vallejo

Alberto Vargas

Jorge Vinatea Reinoso

Marcos Zapata or Marcos Sapaca Inca (c. 1710–1773) painter

Uruguay

Zoma Baitler (1908–1994)

Eduardo Barreto

Juan Manuel Blanes (1830–1901)

Carlos Capelán (born 1948)

José Cuneo Perinetti (1887–1977)

Eladio Dieste (1917–2000)

Pedro Figari (1861–1938)

Haroldo González (born 1941)

Carlos María Herrera (1875–1914)

Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923–2014)

Virginia Patrone (born 1950)

Daniel Pontet (born 1957)

Martín Sastre (born 1976)

Joaquín Torres García (1874–1949)

Petrona Viera (1895–1960)

José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (1891–1975)

José Gurvich (1927–1974)

Rafael Barradas (1890–1929)

Venezuela

Marisol Escobar, sculptor, Venezuela

Pedro León Zapata, cartoonist, muralist, painter, Venezuela

19th century Venezuelan artists: (chronological order)

Carmelo Fernández (1809–1897), artist and painter

Martín Tovar y Tovar (1827–1902), artist and painter

Eloy Palacios (1847–1919), artist, sculptor and painter

Emilio Boggio (1857–1920) painter

Cristóbal Rojas (1857–1890)

Arturo Michelena (1863–1898), painter

20th century Venezuelan artists (chronological order)

Federico Brandt (1878–1932), painter

Armando Reverón (1889–1954), painter

Manuel Cabré (1890–1984), painter

Juan Félix Sánchez (1900–1997), folk artist in weaving and sculpture

Francisco Narváez (1905–1982), sculptor

Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–1994) - a.k.a. "Gego"

César Rengifo (1915–1980)

Gabriel Bracho (1915–1995)

Braulio Salazar (1917–2008)

Mario Abreu (1919–1993)

Alejandro Otero (1921–1990)

Jesús Soto (1923–2005)

Carlos Cruz-Díez (b. 1923)

Elsa Gramcko (1925–1994)

Pedro León Zapata (b. 1928) artist, humorist and cartoonist

Mariano Díaz (photographer) (b. 1929), journalist, photographer, designer, writer

Lía Bermúdez (b. 1930)

Marisol Escobar(1930-2016), sculptor

Jacobo Borges (b. 1931), neo-figurative artist

Juan Calzadilla (b. 1931), poet, painter and art critic

Julio Maragall (b. 1936), sculptor

Harry Abend (b. 1937)

Balthazar Armas (b. 1941), contemporary and abstract movement painter

Paul del Rio (b. 1943), sculptor and painter

Jorge Blanco (b. 1945), artist, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator and humorist

Henry Bermúdez (b. 1951)

Patricia van Dalen (b. 1955)

Arturo Herrera (b. 1959)

Oswaldo Vigas (1923 2014)

Contemporary Venezuelan artists (chronological order)

María Rivas (b. 1960), Latin jazz singer, composer, and occasional painter

Alfredo Ramírez (b. 1961)

Julio Aguilera (b. 1961), painter and sculptor

José Antonio Hernández-Díez (b. 1964)

Jaime Gili (b. 1972)

Hermann Mejia (b. 1973), illustrator, painter and sculptor

Yucef Merhi (b. 1977)

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Cuba:

Jose Acosta Hernandez (born 1966)

José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born 1959)

José Bernal

María Magdalena Campos Pons (born 1959)

Manuel Carbonell (1917-2011)

Pedro Álvarez Castelló (1967–2004)

Yoan Capote

Felipe Dulzaides

Carlos Enríquez (1900–1957)

Roberto Fabelo (born 1951)

Teresita Fernández

Coco Fusco (born 1960)

Félix González-Torres (1957–1996)

Alberto Korda, photographer

Kcho

Emilio Hector Rodriguez (1950)

Wifredo Lam (1902–1982)

Los Carpinteros

Rene Mederos (1933–1996)

Ana Mendieta

Amelia Peláez (1896–1968)

Wilfredo Prieto

Humberto Jesús Castro García (born 1957)

Juan T. Vázquez Martín (born 1941)

Carlos Enrique Prado Herrera (born 1978)

Dominican Republic

Cándido Bidó

Jaime Colson

Paul Giudicelli

Olivia Peguero

Rigo Peralta

Freddie Rodriquez (1945 -

Amaya Salazar

Darío Suro

Rosa Tavarez

Puerto Rico

Allora & Calzadilla contemporary art duo

José Campeche

Pablo Marcano García (born 1952)

Francisco Oller (1883-1917)

Soraida Martinez (born 1956)

Juan Sanchez (born 1954)

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Raúl Anguiano

Ignacio Barrios, watercolorist

Luis Barragán, architect

Arnold Belkin (1930-2006)

Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768), painter

Miguel Condé (born 1939)

Roberto Cortázar (born 1962)

Rodolfo Escalera (1929–2000)

Julio Galán (1958–2006)

Gunther Gerzso (1915–2000)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña (born 1955)

Francisco Guevara (born 1978)

Graciela Iturbide, photographer

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954)

Guillermo Kahlo, photographer

(1871 - 1941

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Tina Modotti, photographer (1896 – 1942)

Pablo O'Higgins

José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949)

Gabriel Orozco  (born 1962)

José Guadalupe Posada

Myra Landau (born 1926)

Diego Rivera (1886–1957)

Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (born 1968)

David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974)

Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991)

Francisco Toledo (born 1941)

José María Velasco Gómez (1840–1912)

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Chicano

Lalo Alcaraz (1964-)

Carlos Almaraz (1941–1989)

Cecilia Alvarez (1950-)

Miguel Angel Reyes (1964-)

Alfonso Arana (1927–2005)

Gus Arriola (1917–2008)

John August Swanson (1938-)

Judy Baca (1946-)

Enrique Chagoya, printmaker, painter

Jerry De La Cruz (1948-)

Roberto de la Rocha (-)

Audrya Flores (1981-)

Frida Kahlo (1907-54)

Richard Dominguez (1960-)

Edgar de Evia (1910–2003)

Elsa Flores (1955-)

Coco Fusco (1960-)

Harry Gamboa, Jr. (1951-)

David Gonzales (cartoonist)

Robert Graham (sculptor) (1938–2008)

Manuel Gregorio Acosta (1921–1989)

Gronk (1957-)

Ester Hernandez (1944-)

Gilbert Hernandez (1957-)

Jaime Hernandez (1959-)

Javier Hernandez (1966-)

Mario Hernandez (1953-)

Yolanda Lopez (1942-)

Gilbert Luján (1940-)

Xavier Martínez (1859–1943)

Alberto Mijangos (1925–2007)

Laura Molina (1957-)

Rafael Navarro (-)

Manuel Neri (1930-)

Wanda Raimundi Ortiz

Rafael Vargas-Suarez (1972-)

Mark Vallen (1953-)

Emigdio Vasquez (1939–2014)

Jhonen Vasquez (1974-)

Esteban Villa (1930-)