Word: tamayo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rufino Tamayo, the Big Fourth of Mexico's famed artistic quadrumvirate (the others: Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros), 1953 was a fat year. In twelve months crowded with work and honor, Tamayo completed two huge murals in Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, painted a monumental El Hombre for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and won a first prize of more than $5,000 for a roomful of paintings in Sao Paulo's biennial exhibition. He also found time to paint more than a dozen smaller pictures. Last week 17 of his new canvases went...
...poor because, for lack of roads, the produce must be hauled out inefficiently over mule paths. To remedy this situation, the society last March resolved to buy a roadbuilding tractor. "Even the poorest farmhands gave a bolivar (30^), and one rich man sent 10,000," said Pablo Jose Tamayo, president of the society. "But he who gave 10,000 is neither more nor less the owner than the man who gave only one." Last August, having raised 95,000 bolivars, the Friends ordered an International Harvester TD-24 with bulldozer...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts displayed a looming mural (18 ft. by 10 ft.) by Mexican Artist Rufino Tamayo (commissioned last year in the hope that it would help eliminate anti-Mexican prejudice in Texas). Titled El Hombre, the mural shows a monolithic, foreshortened giant, his back to the viewer, growing like a strange modernistic tower into the sky. His legs, bulging with orange-colored, cubist muscles, are firmly earthbound; but his upper half reaches into the stars. Explained Artist Tamayo: "I wanted to show man as a rational being going to higher places." Dallas, by & large, was delighted. Mayor...
...generous to its artists as were the city-states of Renaissance Florence and Venice. Mexico's Big Three -David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and the late José Orozco -have covered acres of wall space with murals commissioned by the state. A fourth native son of genius, Rufino Tamayo, was long kept out in the cold by his colleagues, because his art smacked of Paris and his politics failed to partake of Marx. Wallflower Tamayo was only recently invited to paint a muralin Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. His response has the muted, starlight luminosity typical...