HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Enrique Chagoya, Torreón, Still Life
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History of art 88 lecture 18 making art modern in latin america. Calaveras: skeletal characters posadas used to comment on bourgeois society and politics during the reign of president porfirio diaz. Printed and reprinted images in ephemeral context (i. e. newspaper, flyers, etc. ) Forms meant for literate audiences, but also understood by an illiterate populace. Used and reused woodcuts with slight variation to serve multiple purposes. Famous for his skeletal calaveras (works of popular culture) Posada, calaveras ciclistas (cyclists), 1889-95: social commentary on the activities of leisure time as well as an embrace of the modern. Posada, calavera catrina, 1913: bourgeois satire, commentary and critique on upper-class vanity, the unavoidable skeletization of death as it relates to the diminishing of beauty through age. 1910-12: posada, mexican people facing the army and police of porfirio diaz, Posada"s legacy: enrique chagoya (mexican-born, us), tribute to posada, 1989, chagoya, 1492, 1989. The aztec is wearing her own flayed skin while the hand of.
