Fine Mexican Folk Art
and Gallery
Akumal Q. Roo, Mexico
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Catrinas
hand made and painted, These catrinas are made
in Capula, Michoacan with paper mache.
Each piece is unique
José Guadalupe Posada, depicted death as
woman in a stylish flowery wardrobe, back in the
early 1910, as a news paper cartoonist, to mock his
contemporary high class society.
Mexican folk art adopted this portrait, and made its
own version.
