"Sueno de una tarde dominical en La Alameda" by Maestro Diego Rivera
This fifty foot fresco takes the viewer on a Sunday walk through Alameda Park, Mexico City's first city park that was built on the grounds of an ancient Aztec marketplace. The large mural represents three principal eras of Mexican History: The Conquest, The Porfiriato Dictatorship, and The Revolution of 1910. In chronological order starting from left to right we meet numerous prominent figures from Mexican history. In the center of the mural is Diego Rivera at the age of ten being led by the hand by the Dame Catrina ("La Calavera Catrina")
My muse
, Frida Kahlo
Who could imagine that Mexico's turn of the century hardworking printmaker
Jose Guadalupe Posada would someday be celebrated as the first humorist in modern art? Today, his political and satirical skeletons, these ubiquitous images of death come alive, symbolize Mexico's intimate and comfortable relationship with death best expressed in the annual Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead ) holiday.
En Resumen...Huesuda, Catrina, Calaca Dientona...(Spanish)
Great blog
3 comments:
I saw Rivera's frescos while in Mexico City. Iloved seeing the one you featured. Also that music is hearthrobing!
Thanks for the great Halloween post.
He was...something else :)
a master of creativity to be sure, and Frida's torment.
Griselda, first of all, thanks a lot to link one of my posts in your wonderful comments about Rivera.
Also, I owe you an apology for the late response...I had a lot of problems and I was out of the internet for two long years...just recently I could come back and I´m trying to pay a visit to all my friends and followers.
I´m having now some health problems (nothing to worry about it) so I´ll be posting in a more slow paced. Anyway i hope to see you again on my blog where you already have a very special place.
(Sorry, my english is so rusty now but I hope clear enough to make some sense)
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