I promised a post about the art that we saw in Mexico City. Our trip took in so many different styles.
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| Looked like a Beyonce video but was a mural from the '80s |
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| Diablos from Day of the Dead |
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| The fantastic student-made piñatas at the Folk Art museum |
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| Proof of us + art |
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| The amazing detail! |
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| The star shape was very popular but look at the delicate paperwork and beading |
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| why that position and why are her legs bound? |
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| Someone way back when had the idea / took the time to carve beautiful motifs into this skull |
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| We had to see the casa azul and pay our respects to Frida Kahlo. The entry was bedecked and there was an altar because of Day of the Dead. |
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| We went early but so did 100 other people... |
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| metal sculpture at the contemporary art museum |
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| One of our joint faves - Las futbolistas (1922) by Angel Zarraga |
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| Then there was this quirky, surrealist, female, Mexican artist whose name escapes me... |
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| La Ciudad de Mexico (1949) by artist and architect Juan O'Gorman -who designed Frida Kahlo's art studio extension to the casa azul |
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| Olga Costa's La vendedora de frutas (1951) |
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| Diego Rivera's Paisaje nocturne (1947) - farm hands sleeping up in the branches (for safety?) |
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| Sometimes I feel like the painter Rosa Rolanda clearly did! (1952) |
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| The Thorn by Raul Anguiano (1952); I was intrigued by the devoted landscape behind the injured person |
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| Juan O'Gorman paints a portrait of himself painting a portrait of... etc |
And then the ancient
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| We didn't end up going to Teotihuacan but even the to-scale model was impressive with the pyramids of the moon and sun |
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| a reproduction of the pyramid of the serpent |
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| I have seen many things but not many painted shells |
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| These 3 were from Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl |
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| from Xochicalco |
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| Big, really big |
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| ancient scroll with oldest lettering in the Americas I believe (see below) - the Mixtecs codices |
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