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Latin American art is the creative expression of Latin Americans residing in other locations, as well as those from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
The art has its origins in the many indigenous civilizations that lived in the Americas before to European colonization in the 16th century.
Each indigenous society developed complex creative disciplines motivated by religious and spiritual concerns.
Their work is referred to collectively as Pre-Columbian art. The fusion of Amerindian, European, and African cultures has produced a distinct Mestizo legacy.
Art has often been utilized as a form of social and political commentary in Latin America.
José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican graphic artist, depicted scathing pictures of Mexican aristocracy as skeletons, or calaveras.
This was done before to the Mexican Revolution, and it had a big influence on subsequent painters like Diego Rivera.
Parodying Old Master paintings, particularly those of the Spanish court ma