Latin Americ A Great Deal Of Progress - 1340 Words

Although Latin America has experienced a great deal of progress since the first modern movements in the 1920s, contemporary international artist from Latin America still has a tough road ahead of them before they can separate their work from their roots in the eyes of the international community. But I believe that is easier today more than ever. Although I don t want to lump all Latin American countries together, which are very different from each other, but we cannot discuss one only in Latin America. What I want to do is discuss this shared common ground of ideas that exist between the artist and work to a common history that comes from 300 years of colonial occupation by countries like Spain or Portugal. But also a shared history†¦show more content†¦The event that set a lot of these feelings in motion was the Semana de Arte moderna, which was an art festival in Sao Paul, Brazil, that latest from February 11th to February 18th, 1922. This event marked the start of Brazil ian Modernism, which introduced Brazilian artists modernist work to their society at large. By the early twentieth century, Latin Americans began to recognize their unique identity and began to follow their own cultural path. Latinos have been described by Goldman and Cannitzer as not wanting to aspire to enter an already given [North] America but to participate in the construction of a new hegemony dependent upon their cultural practices and discourses (16). Many of these artists today who have been influenced by the generations before and recognize the work that those generations did in opening the doors for the events that are unfolding today. Artists today deal with deconstructing notions of Latin America when many conceptions of them exist. Also, expanding the notion of what Latin America could be but also creating a wider open field of dialogue. They come with a very specific way of viewing the world with their own lens instead of one given to them by other cultures. Latin Am erican artists today have to try to contextualize Latin America in the art world. What they have to discuss today is very much about making choices.