Tamayo - Hardcover

Del Conde, Teresa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821226517 ISBN 13: 9780821226513

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 2002

Synopsis

The Mexican Painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognised in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos based on pre-Columbian drawings and Mexican folk art, painted in vibrant colours and with Cubist influences. His main subjects were myths, fables, the human (often female) figure, fruits and animals. In addition to 1999 being Tamayo's centenary year, no other large, individual monograph on his work is currently available.

About this title

Book Description:

Inspired by folk, pre-Columbian, and Cubist art, Mexican pianter Rufino Tamayo illuminates the beauty and mystery of his homeland with a vibrant palette in this stunning monograph.

About the Author:

Teresa del Conde is the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0821226517
• ISBN 13: 9780821226513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Del Conde Teresa