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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.
Her name is La Catrina and the essence of her story goes deep into Mexican traditions and roots but has been restyled only in the last century. It is believed that the Aztecs worshipped a goddess of death that they alleged protected their departed loved ones, helping them into the next stages.
An elegant figure, Catrina is a work of art, a woodcut, created by artist José Guadalupe Posada as a satire of the social situation in Mexico in 1910. Catrina was one of multiple characters...
Oct 29, 2023 · Back in Mexico she’d been virtually unknown, but the U.S. exhibition made La Catrina an international sensation. Today, La Catrina is Posada’s most recognizable creation.
Oct 25, 2011 · "Catrina has come to symbolize not only El Día de los Muertos and the Mexican willingness to laugh at death itself, but originally catrina was an elegant or well-dressed woman, so it refers to...
- Christine Delsol
- Freelance Writer
Nov 2, 2023 · La Catrina is a skeleton dressed in fancy clothes, created by José Guadalupe Posada to mock the bourgeoisie during the Porfiriato dictatorship. Learn how Diego Rivera transformed her into a nationalist icon and a symbol of the Day of the Dead.
No other character represents Dia de Los Muertos as La Catrina, but do you know her story? She was designed by José Guadalupe Posada and then featured in a mural by Diego Rivera. ...more.
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