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Catrina Painting

Vlad Tasoff

Ecuador

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 15.7 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

La Catrina representa mucho más que eso para México, por tanto, aquí te van 10 datos curiosos que de seguro no sabías sobre ella. 1. Su nombre inicial era ‘La calavera garbanzera’. 2. La figura fue creada por José Guadalupe Posada y bautizada por el muralista Diego Rivera. 3. Las garbanceras/os eran los indígenas que dejaron de vender maíz para vender garbanzos pretendiendo ser europeos y renegando así de su propia raza, herencia y cultura. 4. Por lo tanto, la catrina representa una crítica a muchos mexicanos pobres, que quieren aparentar un estilo de vida europeo que no les corresponde. Esto se hace notar por el hecho de que la calavera no tiene ropa sino únicamente el sombrero “…en los huesos per son sombrero francés con sus plumas de avestruz”. 5. Diego Rivera fue quien le dio su atuendo característico, con su estola de plumas, al plasmarla en su mural ‘Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central’, donde la calavera aparece con su creador, José Guadalupe Posada y una versión infantil de Rivera y con Frinda Kahlo. 6. Fue presicamente Diego Rivera quien la llamó Catrina, nombre con el que se popularizó posteriormente, conviertiéndola así en un personaje popular mexicano. 7. En el siglo XIX el nombre también hacia alusión a la alta sociedad afrancesada de aquella época. De ahí que a las personas bien vestidas hoy se les conoce como como catrines o catrinas.

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

15.7 W x 23.6 H x 1 D in

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Artist Vlad Tasoff is a master at blending the worlds of the fantastical and the real to create dynamic paintings that celebrate the essence of human spirit. His works offer a unique brand of organic surrealism charged with delicate intimations, traces and shadows. Overlapping, semi-translucent veils of rich, frosted pastel figuration sketch out the female body in synthesis with the vegetal and geographic features of mysterious terrain. Adopting the characteristically surrealist trope of masquerade as metaphor, Tasoff’ s dynamic use of hybrid female forms greet the viewer during precious instants of sensual slumber and spiritual discovery. Specific archetypes such as angels, enchantress and deities appear to fise seamlessly into their surroundings. Tropical oases, glacial slopes and dewy meadows emerge amidst illusions to Western and Oriental culture, fashioning mystical landscapes ripe with the beguiling fruit of forms, symbols and signs…

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