Brea and I stayed in downtown Austin during our visit. We were walking to visit the Austin State Capitol when we came upon the Mexic-Arte Museum. We decided to check it out.
The Mexic–Arte Museum in Austin was celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913). It was interesting to find out that he was largely forgotten by the end of his life and had died in poverty. Posada's engravings were brought to a wider audience in the 1920s by the French artist Jean Charlot, who encountered them while visiting Diego Rivera.
Jose Guadalupe Posada was one of Mexico's most famous political cartoonists and illustrators during his lifetime.
He created the legendary calaveras (skeleton) figures
and the popular la catrina (elegant skeleton).
These images are largely associated with the Latin American holiday of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
On the outside of the Mexic-Arte Museum, the museum celebrated the Day of the Dead with 100 hand-painted calaveras (skeletons). People were able to honor and remember your loved ones by purchasing their own calavera on the Mexic-Arte Museum’s 5th street public mural.
One day I want to go to Oaxaca during the Day of the Dead festivities.
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