Tehuanas rufino tamayo biography

The exhibition does not follow his biography, but represents key moments of his career and the esthetic searches that can be easily identified.!

All this was in accord with Tamayo's own life.

Artist Biography.

The exhibition does not follow his biography, but represents key moments of his career and the esthetic searches that can be easily identified.

Tamayo, born of Zapotec heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico, was one of the most prominent Mexican artists of the mids, and a contemporary of Rivera, Siqueiros, and.

This stunning work, which shows six women dressed in ceremonial lace headdresses from the city of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca.

Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo, painter, muralist, designer, sculptor, and printmaker, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico on 26 August 1899. After the death of his parents in 1911, he went to live with his aunt in Mexico City. In 1917 he was enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and he later worked as a draftsman for the Museo Nacional de Arqueología and, in 1921, was appointed head of the department of Ethnographic Drawing.

In 1926, Tamayo left Mexico City for New York, where his second exhibition was mounted at the Weyhe Gallery in Manhattan that same year. His first major retrospective was held in Mexico City in 1948.

Felipe Morales was born in near Ocotlan, Oaxaca.

Tamayo and his wife, Olga, moved to Paris in 1957 and they returned to Mexico City permanently in 1959.

In the early 1970s, Tamayo helped to develop mixografía, a technique designed to create three-dimensional, textured prints on handmade paper.

In 1984, he wrote about this technique: “Color in Mixografía