Citlali Haro (Mexican, 1991) - Untitled (2024)

Dr. Atl - Carmen Mondragón (Nahui Olin), ca. 1922

Nahui Olin was born María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca in Mexico City, the fifth of eight children in a wealthy military family. She began writing poetry and prose while living in France, between the ages of four and twelve. In 1914, she became part of Parisian artistic circles when she returned to live in Paris, after she married Mexican diplomat and painter, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1891-1971) in 1913. The couple returned to Mexico in 1921 and remained in an open relationship until 1922. In 1921 she began a long-term relationship with the political activist and painter Gerardo Murillo (1865-1964), better known as Dr. Atl (the Nahuatl word for “water”). Also inspired by post-revolutionary desires to publicly assert connections to indigenous culture and past, C. Mondragón Valseca changed her name to Nahui Olin in 1922, a Nahuatl reference to renewal and the sun’s force behind the cyclic rhythm of the heavens, a symbol of earthquakes and change. (source)

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

Pedro Friedeberg — Kant's Kindergarten (acrylic and ink on board, 1973)

Calabazas de Barro

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Anemone, Suiza, Flor Garduño , 2007

Fantastic Women series

everything is silent, everything is wild V & everything is silent, everything is wild I by maría fragoso jara, 2021, colored pencil on paper 22 × 22 in

Desnudo Barocco by Germán Gedovius (1920)

Here's another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we're making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!

This particular example comes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which features more than 1/2 million open access images.

Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican, 1904-1957), Rhapsody in Blue, 1927. Oil on canvas, 25¼ x 31 in.

Tarot cards by Mexican-British painter Leonora Carrington, 1955.

Citlali Haro (Mexican, 1991) - Untitled (2021)

Saturnino Herrán - The offering (1913)

Bache Bache (Mexican, b1992, aka Carlos Edgar Salinas Salinas), Monumento al Origen de una Memoria, 2023 Oil, aerosol, and acrylic on canvas, 230 cm x 191cm

Pedro Friedeberg — Trantamorphic Decapitations (ink and acrylic on wood panel, 1978)

‘Black Kites’. A sculpture by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, dated 1997, New York. Medium is hand-drawn graphite on a real human skull.

(Source: philamuseum.org)