Dia de los Muertos 2024

We commemorate Dia del los Muertos with woodcuts  by the Mexican printmaking satirist José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852-1913) from the 1930 publication Monografía: Las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada, grabador mexicano, edited by American ethnographer Frances Toor (1890-1956), American Mexican artist Paul O'Higgins (1904-1983), and Posada's contemporary and colleague Blas Vanegas Arroyo (1852-1917), with an introduction by the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957), published in Mexico City by Mexican Folkways. 

 Calaveras and calacas are closely associated with Day of the Dead celebrations, and this Posada monograph contains many examples.

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Here's another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we're making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!

Bro has candy and he's not sharing

Mayito quiere que disfrutemos junto a ella de sus luces de bengala Dice que son maravillosas de ver y muy divertidas de mover mientras brillan con toda su magia. Fuuu! A ustedes también les encantan estas luces? Amalia wants us to enjoy her sparklers with her. She says they're wonderful to see and so much fun to move around as they twinkle with all their magic. Wow! Do you love these lights too?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 💀

I got inspired to do this with Maria this time, since I felt like I did not draw the ✨Queen✨ herself a lot

"what are we looking for again?” “blessed silence.”