Word: tamayo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexico, where art sometimes crowds murder and politics off the front page, jailbirds are turning their cells into studios. Last week modern Mexican Painter Rufino Tamayo (TIME, Feb. 17), who now teaches art in Brooklyn, was combing Mexico's prisons for new talent. Tamayo was sure he would find enough for a fall show at the Brooklyn Museum Art School...
...Tamayo's paintings hang in over a dozen U.S. museums, sell like hot tamales at prices ranging up to $5,000. His new show impressed critics and tickled Tamayo collectors as usual. And, as usual, it sent conscientious gallerygoers swearing into the street, wishing they knew what moderns like Tamayo were driving...
...first glance the colors looked muddy or sometimes acidly off-register. Tamayo's figures lifted swollen hands and feet, like anthropomorphic cactus plants, and stared from flat, featureless heads. Behind them the fuzzy skies were scratched with schoolboy diagrams of the constellations. But for fans of Rufino Tamayo the distorted figures seemed perfectly adjusted to their painted world, and the star-spangled night skies (a new element in Tamayo's work) seemed to suggest the era of science...
...Zapotecan Indian born in the tropical state of Oaxaca, Tamayo was orphaned at ten, brought up in Mexico City's fruit markets by an aunt. "My feeling is Mexican," he grins, "my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican, but my thinking is a mixture...
...says; "it has to be done with our insides, our heart, even our intestines. The painter is like a mother bearing a child. It has to hurt a lot-and the more it hurts the more healthy it is." Mystified onlookers were relieved to hear that it hurt Tamayo...