Carlos Arruza part in the 1960 John Wayne film "The Alamo". He was the subject of the 1971 documentary "Arruza", directed by Budd Boetticher. Arruza's sons, Manolo and Carlos Jr., also became prominent toreros. Carlos Arruza died on May 20, 1966 in an automobile accident while on the road from Toluca, State of Mexico, to Mexico City. Calle Carlos Arruza, a small street in downtown Tucson, Arizona, is named after Arruza. According to "Arizona Daily Star" historical writer David Leighton, it may be the only street in the U.S. named after a bullfighter. The composition "Carlos", by jazz composer and bandleader Gerald
Jaime Gili the universal abstract language of the mid-20th Century into contemporary painting. More specifically, his work has been contextualised as a revision of Latin American abstraction, especially the Venezuelan optical and kinetic work of artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero, with an input from popular art and London's energy. Critic Fisun Guner wrote in 2003 about his show at the Jerwood Space: "What do you get when you mix Pop Art, Minimalism, Vorticism, Futurism and graffiti art? The answer may well resemble the work of (...) Jaime Gili." Venezuelan Curator Jesús Fuenmayor wrote in 2006 for the catalogue of