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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.
The La Catrina Quartet is a group of four U.S.-based classical musicians who specialize in traditional and classical music from the Americas as well as traditional European pieces. The group was formed in 2001 by four graduate students at the Western Michigan University .
Posada's La Calavera Catrina. Posada was born in Aguascalientes on 2 February 1852. [1] [2] His father was Germán Posada Serna and his mother was Petra Aguilar Portillo. Posada was one of eight children and received his early education from his older brother Cirilo, a country school teacher. Posada's brother taught him reading, writing and ...
The inaugural La Catrina pageant in October 2020 was the first pageant Bamm hosted — back then it was called a Día de los Muertos pageant. Bamm decided to change the focus of the pageant for ...
Catrina is the most famous figure associated with the Day of the Dead. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] During Day of the Dead, skulls and skeletons are created from many materials such as wood, sugar paste, nuts, chocolate, etc. [ 9 ] When sugar skulls are purchased or given as gifts, the name of the deceased is often written with icing across the forehead of the ...
In 1946-47, Rivera painted A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park, a fresco that featured a fully elaborated figure of La Calavera Catrina. This character, which was created by José Guadalupe Posada, originally consisted of a print depicting the head and shoulders of a skeletal woman in a big hat. Rivera endowed his Catrina figure ...
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(The Center Square) – After more than 82% of Evanston voters approved a 2022 referendum adopting ranked choice voting, Reform for Illinois will appeal a recent court decision they say limits the ...