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Rufino Tamayo holding a guitar in a photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1945.
Rufino Tamayo holding a guitar in a photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1945. Carl Van Vechten ( June 17, 1880 &ndash December 21, 1964) was an American Writer and Photographer who was a

Rufino Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Zapotecan Indian painter born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, of Mestizo parents. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The Zapotecs are an indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities exist For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Oaxaca is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Mestizo is a Spanish term that was coined during the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in Latin [1][2]

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Early life

Tamayo moved to Mexico City, following the death of his mother in 1911, and began studying art at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, in 1917. Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year [1] While studying, Tamayo experimented with and was influenced by Cubism, Impressionism, and Fauvism, among other popular art movements of the time, but with a distinctly Mexican feel. Cubism was a 20th century Avant-garde Art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s Les Fauves ( French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early [1]

Career

After the Mexican Revolution, Tamayo devoted himself to creating an identity in his work, and with his paintings, Tamayo expressed what he believed was the traditional Mexico, refusing to follow the more political trend that many of his contemporaries did, such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Oswaldo Guayasamin, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana was a major armed struggle that started with an uprising led by Francisco I José Clemente Orozco ( November 23, 1883 &ndash September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who Diego Rivera (December 8 1886 &ndash November 24 1957 was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez Oswaldo Guayasamín ( July 6, 1919 &ndash March 10, 1999, Quito, Ecuador) was an José David Alfaro Siqueiros ( December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca Due to this choice, he was seen by some as a "traitor" to the political cause, and he felt he could not freely express his art, so in 1926, he decided to leave Mexico and move to New York. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous [1] Prior to leaving, he organized a one-man show of his work in Mexico City, where he was noticed for his individuality. [1] Tamayo returned to Mexico in 1929 to have another solo show, this time being met with high praise and media coverage. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Tamayo and Lea Remba were the first artists, who created a new type of printed artwork called "mixografía". Mixografía consisted of artwork printed on paper, but with depth and texture. [3] One of their most famous mixografía was titled Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros ("Two Characters Attacked by Dogs"). [4]

Tamayo also painted murals, some of which are displayed inside Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes opera house in Mexico City, such as Nacimiento de la nacionalidad ("Birth of the Nationality"), (1952). Palacio de Bellas Artes (" Palace of Fine Arts " is the premier Opera house of Mexico City. An opera house is a theater building used for Opera performances that consists of a stage an orchestra pit audience seating and backstage facilities for costumes Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico

Outside Mexico

From 1937 to 1949, Tamayo and his wife Olga lived in New York, becoming widely recognized, and he painted some of his most valuable works during that time. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He had his first show in New York City at Valentine Gallery. He gained credibility and went on to show at Knoedler Gallery and Marlborough Gallery. [5] In 1948 his first major retrospective was done at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and while he was still controversial, his popularity was high. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Still uncomfortable with the political differences and controversy, Tamayo and Olga moved to Paris in 1949, where he was welcomed by the artists of Europe. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He remained in Paris for 10 years. [1]

The Return Home

In 1959, Tamayo and his wife returned to Mexico permanently, where Tamayo built an art museum in his home town of Oaxaca, the Museo Rufino Tamayo. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Museo Rufino Tamayo is an Art Museum in the city of Oaxaca Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. In 1972 Tamayo was the subject of the documentary film, Rufino Tamayo: The Sources of his Art by Gary Conklin. Gary Conklin is an independent American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.

The Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum (Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo), located on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma boulevard, where it crosses Chapultepec Park, was opened in 1981 as a repository for the collections that Rufino Tamayo and his wife acquired during their lifetimes, and ultimately donated to the nation. Mexico 's Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum ( Spanish: Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo) located on Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico City Paseo de la Reforma ( English: "Reform's Walk" is a 12 kilometer long grand avenue in Mexico City, Mexico. Chapultepec ( Chapoltepēc "at the grasshopper hill" in the Nahuatl language; c Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981

In 1988, Tamayo received the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The Order of the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor ( Spanish: Medalla de Honor "Belisario Domínguez" del Senado de la República) is the highest award

Tamayo painted his last painting in 1989, at the age of 90, Hombre con flor (Man with flower), a self-portrait. [3]

Tamayo's work has been displayed in museums throughout the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Phillips Collection in Washington, and The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum The City of New York The Phillips Collection is an Art museum founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

“ "If I could express with a single word what it is that distinguishes Tamayo from other painters, I would say without a moment's hesitation: Sun. For the sun is in all his pictures, whether we see it or not. " - Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz ”

His Death

On June 12th 1991, Tamayo was admitted to Mexico City's National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition for respiratory and heart failure. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature Octavio Peazy Paz " ( March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican Writer, Poet, and diplomat He suffered an accute stroke and died on June 24, 1991.


Theft and Recovery

Tamayo's 1970 painting Tres Personajes was bought by a Houston man as a gift for his wife in 1977, then stolen from their storage locker in 1987 during a move. Tres Personajes second version (English Three People was painted by Rufino Tamayo in 1970 Self storage facilities are Businesses composed of Real estate or Personal property cargo transit containers divided into self storage spaces MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, in 1972 by John Africa and Donald Glassey In 2003, Elizabeth Gibson found the painting in the trash on a New York City curb. Although she knew little about modern art, Gibson felt the painting "had power" and took it without knowing its origin or market value. History of Modern art Roots in the 19th century Although modern Sculpture and Architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the nineteenth She spent four years trying to learn about the work, eventually learning from the PBS website that it had been featured on an episode of Antiques Roadshow. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Antiques Roadshow is a British Human interest Television show in which Antiques appraisers travel to various regions of After seeing the Missing Masterpieces segment about Tres Personajes, Gibson and the former owner arranged to sell the painting at a Sotheby's auction. Sotheby's ( is the world's second oldest Auction house in continuous operation (the oldest being Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674 In November, 2007 Gibson received a $15,000 reward plus a portion of the $1,049,000 auction sales price. [6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Carlos Suarez De Jesus (2007). Mexican Master (English). The Miami New Times. Retrieved on October 1, 2007.
  2. ^ The Adani Gallery (2007). Rufino Tamayo (English). The Adani Gallery. Retrieved on October 1, 2007.
  3. ^ a b Frank Houston (2007). Gone Tamayo (English). The Miami New Times. Retrieved on October 1, 2007.
  4. ^ Artscene (2007). Rufino Tamayo (English). Artscene. Retrieved on October 1, 2007.
  5. ^ Katherine Jentleson (November 21, 2007), Artist Dossier: Rufino Tamayo, ARTINFO, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/25950/artist-dossier-rufino-tamayo/>. Retrieved on 28 April 2008 
  6. ^ ULA ILNYTZKY. "Painting found in trash could fetch $1M", Associated Press, 24 October 2007.  
  7. ^ Charlotte Higgins. "Stolen masterpiece found on New York street", The Guardian, 24 October 2007.  
  8. ^ Associated Press. "Painting Found in Trash Sells for $1M", November 21, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem.  
  9. ^ Lisa Gray. "Finding Tamayo painting was result of fate", Houston Chronicle, November 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem.  

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