Tradiciones, artes, vida cotidiana.
Costa Rican art reflects the blending of the country’s Indigenous, European, and African communities, expressed across painting, sculpture, dance, and traditional dress. Because Costa Rica developed as a distinct literary nation relatively late, its written literary tradition dates mainly to the final years of the nineteenth century; scholars typically divide the subsequent body of Costa […]
Chilean visual art grew from a blending of Spanish colonial traditions, including Baroque and Mannerist influences, with Indigenous artistic heritage, particularly among the Mapuche people of the south. One of the country’s earliest organized painter collectives, the Generación del 13, formed in 1913 and helped establish a national tradition of formal art instruction. Social and […]
Canadian visual art found a defining voice in the Group of Seven, a collective of landscape painters who from the 1920s onward depicted the country’s wilderness in bold, stylized forms and helped establish a distinctly national school of painting. Indigenous artistic traditions run alongside this settler-descended canon; institutions such as the Indigenous Art Centre preserve […]
Brazilian literature reaches back to Joaquim Machado de Assis, the 19th-century novelist whose satirical realism made him the country’s most celebrated writer, and forward to Modern Art Week, held in São Paulo in February 1922, when figures such as Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, and Anita Malfatti staged exhibitions, concerts, and […]
Bolivia’s visual arts trace a lineage from the Mestizo Baroque churches and altarpieces of the colonial Andes, which fused Spanish religious iconography with Indigenous motifs, to a modern gallery scene centered in La Paz and Santa Cruz. Painters and sculptors such as Marina Núñez del Prado, María Luisa Pacheco, and Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas drew […]
