via The Metropolitan Museum of Art PATRICIA ESCÁRCEGA In that broadsheet, the big Mexican newspapers of the day are represented by Posada as skeletons, or calaveras, racing on bicycles around a ...
The Catrina, or elegant skeleton, was created by Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913), a Mexican cartoonist illustrator and artist whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and ...
His ubiquitous, jocular skeletons and calaveras (human skulls ... bring an underknown and underappreciated chapter of Mexican ...
Scientists spent three years studying the remains where they lay before deciding it was safe to bring the skeleton to the surface for further study, according to the Mexican National Institute for ...