Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a popular modern Mexican painter. He was a Zapotec Indian and was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca.

In his paintings, Tamayo expressed what he believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings that many of his contemporaries such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros did. Tamayo and another artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to create a new type of printed artwork called “Mixografia.” This consisted of artwork printed on paper but with depth and texture. One of their most famous Mixografias is entitled “Personajes Atacados por Perros (Two Characters Attacked by Dogs).” Some of Tamayo’s art has been shown in museums such as The Philips Collection in Washington and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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