Rufino Tamayo - Mexican Artists

Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a famous Mexican painter. He was a Zapotec Native American and was born in the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca.

In his paintings, Tamayo uttered what he actually believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings, which many of his contemporaries such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Oswaldo Guayasamin and as well as David Alfaro Siqueiros did. Tamayo and one more artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to make a new type of printed artwork called “mixografía”. This consisted of artwork printed on paper but with vigor and texture. One of their most well-known mixografías is free Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros (”Two Characters Attacked by Dogs”).

Tamayo also painted murals, some of which – counting Nacimiento de la nacionalidad (”Birth of the Nationality”), 1952 – are exhibited inside Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes opera house. His art has also been exposed in U.S. museums such as The Phillips Collection in Washington and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

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