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Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with surrealist influences.
Still Life (1954) belongs to Tamayo’s most prolific period. It exemplifies the handling of color that is characteristic of his work. The rich tradition of still life painting in Mexico was not only continued, but also developed into a more modern form, culminating in the characteristic watermelon paintings produced by Rufino Tamayo in the course of his entire career.
The brightly colored 51" by 38" (130 cm x 97 cm) painting is considered to be significant as an example of Tamayo's mature style. It is an abstract depiction of a man, a woman and an androgynous figure in a rich palette of purple, orange and yellow, with Tamayo's signature rough surface texture, made of sand and ground marble dust mixed into ...
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Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public contemporary art museum located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, that produces contemporary art exhibitions, using its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as artworks from the collection of its founder, the artist Rufino Tamayo.
Day and Night (Spanish: Día y noche) is a mural by Rufino Tamayo, painted using Vinylite resin on canvas and mounted on particleboard.As well as Still Life, it was originally created for the perfumes and pharmacy section of the Sanborns store on Lafragua Street in Mexico City. [2]
The museum contains collections of pre-Columbian art once owned by artist Rufino Tamayo. [1] It is housed in a colonial-style building. The displays are arranged according to aesthetic themes. One of the chief purposes of Tamayo and the museum was to collect the historic pieces, and to protect them from entering the illegal artifact traders market.
Pinturas de Tamayo (Pictures of Tamayo) is an orchestral composition in five movements by the American composer Steven Stucky. The work was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , who premiered the work on March 28, 1996, under the conductor Michael Gielen in Symphony Center , Chicago .