Podcast: Latin American Art

This week I found a site that has pod casts of lectures given by various professors which I found pretty helpful. www.backdoorbroadcasting.com

I found a historical one about the art of Latin America. It was titled, "The Journey and the Garden: Landscape and Modernity in Latin America" it was given by Prof. Jens Andermann. He showed a lot of landscape and garden paintings that had been influenced by the political events of the time. For instance he had a few paintings by Miguel Lawner who painted trees during his time at a Cuban concentration camp. It reflected not only the destruction of the particular type of trees that was going on, but the situation politically as well. Lawner was accused of using hidden coded messages in his artwork.

Andermann went on to explain the evolution of art in Latin America. The type of materials and mediums used as well as the inspiration. The landscape art became more important and as time went on paler colors were used. You could see the art becoming more modern with each historical event and new landscape. It was a pretty interesting lecture and the pictures that accompanied it made it more enjoyable to listen to.
Megan Fotheringham