Alvaro de la Cruz Lopez

Catrina en Día de Muertos - Ceramic Sculpture - Mexican Folk Art - Cactus Fine A

2018

Frida Espectacular - Amazing Frida Made with natural clay and polychrome painting. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in an oven. LISTING =================================== 1 Ceramic Frida =================================== DETAILS =================================== Time of Preparation: 2.5 months Made: Izuca de Matamoros, Puebla, México. Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 6" in or 30x 40" x 15 cm Artisan: Taller Alfonso Castillo Orta...

FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Manuel Cruz Prudencio FOFA (Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art) Winner Woodcarving FOFA Honrando nuestra raices, explorando nuestros sueños, 2016 Made ...

A quite wonderful Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos festival held throughout Mexico) La Catrina symbolic skeleton figure. La Catrina is the festival’s most recognizable image/figure. She is the model of a high-society woman who has met Death, her maker. She represents something between the fear induced by her skeletal form and the revelry exhibited by the comical way she is typically portrayed, making her a perfect symbol of the Mexican holiday. She often appears in paintings, window displays, and costumes all around Mexico during the Day of the Dead festivities. La Catrina was originally conceived in the early 1900s by newspaper illustrator and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada...

This is a wonderful Folk Art collection of Mexican traditional Day-of-the-Dead ceramic figures. Although unsigned these figures are in the style of the Aguilar Family of Oaxacan pott...