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Day 2, Friday: guided visit to SEP, Colegio de San Idlefonso, where Diego met Frida, and the Abelardo Rodriguez market where Rivera’s students, includingPablo O’Higgins, painted. Lunch and dinner on your own. Overnight in Mexico City. One of 125 Rivera painted at SEP, 1923-28, this...
“What we have here is called barro canelo and it’s ideal for pottery, with good elasticity. My great uncle looked all over the place before he found this spot. Other kinds of clay were too sandy or had no consistency or would break after being baked.” Having crushed the clay to the...
This is the same building that houses Diego Rivera murals, so if you go there soon, don’t miss this. Enter on side street through security, go to second floor. I returned on my last day in the Federal District and spent about an hour-and-a-half learning more about Mexican art and ...
When the Spanish brought the potter’s wheel to Mexico in the 1500s, the Jalisco region was among the first regions to quickly integrate it into the existing pre-Hispanic techniques of handbuilding. There is even a form of pottery called tlaquepaque’ which consists of twice-fired clay that ...
Many of the villages specialize in a particular type of folk art or handicraft: San Martín Tilcajete is famed for its colorful woodcarving; Santa María Atzompa has been producing pottery since ancient times. In the legendary weaving village of Teotitlán del Valle, we watched as a white-...
As a child,Posadaworked as a farm laborer and in a pottery factory. In teenage he learned lithography and engraving. Soon his first political cartoons were published in a newspaper titledEl Jicote. He went on to establish himself as apictorial journalistpublishing thousands of illustrations. José...