Los Morelis bogotanos. Una <i>Conversación artística </i>entre dos amigos cosmopolitas

Abstract

This essay highlights the text Conversación artística (Bogotá-Paris, 1885-1887), its authenticity, and the dynamic relationship between its authors: Ángel Cuervo and Rafael Pombo. The text displays a blend of praise, irony, and disillusionment in response to fin-de-siècle Europe as intensely experienced by Cuervo who, as a migrant, visits museums, galleries, and exhibitions at a frenetic pace and shares his thoughts with his friend Pombo, who from Bogotá yearns and shares his ideas in his correspondence. Barely known today, we argue that this conversation existed as an intellectual and intimate exchange of thirty-one years of friendship that eventually became an editorial project and corresponds to different writing times only visible through a review of the intense epistolary exchange between these two friends.