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2. La Calavera Catrina - Wikipedia

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   La Calavera Catrina ("The Dapper [female] Skull") had its origin as a zinc etching created by the Mexican printmaker and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913). The image is usually dated c. 1910 –12. Its first certain publication date is 1913, when it appeared in a satiric broadside (a newspaper-sized sheet of paper) as a photo ...

3. José Guadalupe Posada - Wikipedia

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   Posada was born in Aguascalientes on 2 February 1852. [1] [2] His father was Germán Posada Serna and his mother was Petra Aguilar Portillo. Posada was one of eight children and received his early education from his older brother Cirilo, a country school teacher. Posada's brother taught him reading, writing and drawing.

4. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gran calavera eléctrica

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   Original - "Gran calavera eléctrica" (Grand electric skull) by José Guadalupe Posada, 1900-1913. Reason José Guadalupe Posada was a Mexican artist who used themes from indigenous culture to religious and satirical effect. Posada's best known work incorporates skulls (calaveras), such as this "Great electric skull" example in which a skeleton ...

5. File:Gran calavera eléctrica2.jpg - Wikipedia

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6. Skull art - Wikipedia

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   Skull art is found in various cultures of the world. Indigenous Mexican art celebrates the skeleton and uses it as a regular motif. The use of skulls and skeletons in art originated before the Conquest : The Aztecs excelled in stone sculptures and created striking carvings of their Gods. [ 1 ]

7. José Guadalupe Posada Museum - Wikipedia

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   The museum opened in 1972 and is run jointly by the state and federal governments. It is housed in what was the priest's cloisters and residence, in front of the gardens and a colonial fountain, and immediately next to the beautiful 18th century baroque Church of "El Señor del Encino" (Our Lord of the Oak, for a Black Crist made of live oak, worshiped in the church), in the Triana historic ...

8. Visiting Our Past: Even in 1900, walking along Patton Avenue ...

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   Rob Neufeld wrote the local history feature, "Visiting Our Past," for the Citizen Times until his death in 2019. This column originally was published Nov. 8, 2007.

9. Jean Charlot - Wikipedia

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   Charlot is generally recognized as having brought international attention to José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican printer who had produced more than 15,000 prints and lithographs, devoted mostly to the popular readers of newspapers in pre-revolutionary Mexico, in which he would present political satires using cartoon-like skeletons; these are a variety of calavera.