José Posada: La Catrina La Calavera de la Catrina is a 1913 zinc etching by Mexican engraver and...

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La Calavera de la CatrinaLa Calavera de la Catrina is a 1913 zinc etching is a 1913 zinc etching by Mexican engraver and printmaker by Mexican engraver and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. The image has since . The image has since become a staple of Mexican imagery, and is often become a staple of Mexican imagery, and is often incorporated into artistic manifestations of the incorporated into artistic manifestations of the Day of the Dead such as altars and calavera such as altars and calavera costumes. It was part of his series of costumes. It was part of his series of calaveras, , which were humorous images of contemporary which were humorous images of contemporary figures depicted as skeletons, often accompanied by figures depicted as skeletons, often accompanied by a poem.a poem.

The figure, depicted in an ornate hat fashionable at The figure, depicted in an ornate hat fashionable at the time, is intended to show that the rich and the time, is intended to show that the rich and fashionable, despite their pretensions to importance, fashionable, despite their pretensions to importance, are just as susceptible to death as anyone else.are just as susceptible to death as anyone else.

Sueño de una tarde Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda dominical en la Alameda

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1947-19491947-1949El Museo Mural Diego El Museo Mural Diego

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historia de México y una historia de México y una autobiografía de Rivera.autobiografía de Rivera.

• un mural que estuvo en el Rockefeller Center en Nueva York

•  fue destruido por las ideas comunistas y el retrato de Lenin