Rufino Tamayo Museum

in #mexico6 years ago

The Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum or better knows like Tamayo Museum is inside the Chapultepec forest in Mexico City. The Tamayo room has samples going through the 70 years of his artistic vision. The items that the artist approaches are the portrait, the still life and the landscape.
Rufino Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1899 and died in the Mexico City in 1991.

Here are some pictures from the Tamayo Room!

Constellation, 1958 IMG_0694 (Edited).JPG



Man at the door, 1980

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Man in red, 1976

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Watermelons, 1968

The first time that we saw a mural from Rufino Tamayo was in the museums night, it is the last Wednesday of the month, when the museums open to the public in the night and are free. It was fortuity because we went to other exposition in the Fine Arts Palace and at the end of the exposition we could enter to the guided tour of the murals. We become to be fans to Tamayo that day. His way to paint so different from Diego Rivera and Siqueiros, more abstract.
The guide told us an anecdote, Tamayo was living in Paris, but he did not like so much, one day he came back to Mexico, he feeling better and painted some watermelons, the people asked him why he had painted some watermelons and he answered that just because he wanted, but the people think that was because he missed Mexico, may be these watermelons are the Oaxaca picture, HOME.
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Dancer, 1979

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Women, 1971

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Children's game, 1958

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Conjugal portrait, 1981

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The great galaxie, 1978

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The man of the ballons, 1965

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