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La Catrina – In Mexican folk culture, the Catrina, popularized by Jose Guadalupe Posada, is the skeleton of a high society woman and one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico. Articles this image appears in Day of the Dead, Catrina Creator Tomascastelazo
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La Calavera Catrina. 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 ...
One dresses the part of the Catrina and the other preserves her creations in photos. This Kansas City duo brings beauty to Dia de los Muertos. One dresses the part of the Catrina and the other ...
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
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Calaca-like figures can be seen in the Tim Burton film Corpse Bride, Neil Gaiman's movie Coraline, video games such as LittleBigPlanet (2008) and Guacamelee! (2013), and the 1998 Tim Schafer computer game Grim Fandango. In Monster High, Skelita Calaveras is a calaca and is the daughter of Los Esklitos (The Skeletons).
One of the hardest-fought political battles in 2024 happened inside California's Capitol between a group of grieving parents who lost their kids to fentanyl and a handful of powerful politicians ...