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José Guadalupe Posada arrives in Mexico City
According to the state of Aguascalientes, Inn He left for Mexico City after in 1888 Guanajuato suffered severe floods. According to the exhibition on the artist at the Tijuana Cultural Center, Posada fled to the city after his political cartoons caused a stir and the anger of the politicians of the time.
Upon arriving he installed his workshop on Santa Teresa Street and later in Santa Inés number 5, street that we now know as currency. Later he would begin collaborating with Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, who says, Posada made more than fifteen thousand engravings and became his guide and collaborator.
Much of his work reflected his disagreement with the Porfiriato in newspapers such as Argos, La Patria, El Ahuizote or The Son of Ahuizote, Journal of Mexico, Gil Blas, new century, among others.
During the outbreak of the revolution, the work of Inn It was a hard criticism of the government and an intimate reflection of society. He developed tirelessly cartoons of satire and posters that the population could see hanging on the walls, which is why many say, Posada was the precursor of muralism.
According to the Blastein collection, the graph of Inn It is vast in terms of details and expressiveness; “They are admiring the compositions full of movement, the intention of the engraving lines, the force with which the gesture to the characters and scenes he reproduces. The line was according to the message he wanted to convey; It can be blurred, soft and harmonious, especially in everyday scenes and ads, or hard and thick using found lines, which transmit the tension of the violent matter and the complaint. ”
Works by José Guadalupe Posada
GARBANCERA SALA
The skeleton that we know today as La Catrina and that has marked the festivities of the day of the dead for years, came to light in November 1913, ten months after the death of the most famous lithographer in Mexico.