La Catrina Mexicos Symbol Day of The Death

La Catrina Mexicos Symbol Day of The Death, “Catrina has come to symbolize not only El Día de Los Muertos and the Mexican willingness to laugh at death itself, but originally catrina was an elegant or well-dressed woman, so it refers to rich people,”

“Death brings this neutralizing force; everyone is equal in the end. Sometimes people have to be reminded.”

La Catrina as we know her originated with Jose Guadalupe Posada, considered the father of Mexican printmaking. Born in 1852, he apprenticed to a local printmaker and publisher when he was just 14. Moving to Mexico City in 1888, he soon became the chief artist for Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, publisher of illustrated broadsides, street gazettes, chapbooks, and other popular forms of literature, including songbooks for the popular corridos. He became famous for Calaveras (skulls or skeletons) images that he wielded as political and social satire, poking fun at every imaginable human folly. His influence on Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and other great artists of their generation was incalculable.

LINEAGE BEGINS WITH THE AZTECS

“La Catrina has been iterated over time,” de la Torre said. “It’s not just Posada and his work in 1910. There are layers of history. The image and the woman in death go back to the ancient Aztec period. Posada took his inspiration from Mictecacihuatl, goddess of death, and Lady of Mictlan, the underworld.”