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La Calavera Catrina, from 2018 (oil and gold leaf on panel) combines influences from traditional New Mexican religious statues and cubism with papel picado (cut paper) patterns. Maldonado's The Portrait of Doña Catrina (2019) is a reworking of a famous oil painting by Goya.
In January 2020, senior CJNG hitwoman María Guadalupe López Esquive, alias "La Catrina" died following a shootout with police. [168] [169] López, also known as "Dame of Death", was suspected of being the CJNG leader in Mexico's Tierra Caliente region. [168]
Posada's La Calavera Catrina.. 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 t
La Catrina, or the Catrina, is a popular female character of the celebration. Catrina is usually represented as an elegantly dressed skeleton. Women don elaborate makeup and costumes during the ...
Yes, skulls and death are central symbols of the Hispanic holiday, but the day is far from being Halloween 2.0. With a subject as macabre as death, Día de los Muertos turns all preconceived ...
The inaugural La Catrina pageant in October 2020 was the first pageant Bamm hosted — back then it was called a Día de los Muertos pageant. Bamm decided to change the focus of the pageant for ...
Historian Elsa Malvido, researcher for the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, or National Institute of Anthropology and History) and founder of the institute's Taller de Estudios sobre la Muerte (Workshop of Studies on Death), was the first to do so in the context of her wider research into Mexican attitudes to death ...
Catrina is the most famous figure associated with the Day of the Dead. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] During Day of the Dead, skulls and skeletons are created from many materials such as wood, sugar paste, nuts, chocolate, etc. [ 9 ] When sugar skulls are purchased or given as gifts, the name of the deceased is often written with icing across the forehead of the ...