#Jose Guadalupe Posada

[jstor]

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.

[catsofyore]

Beautiful cat calavera by José Guadalupe Posada. Source.

[diana-andraste]

A skeleton wearing a hat, holding newspapers and running, José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1880-1910

Skeletons in her closet? Nah. A clearly worded debunking by Melissa Goldin at AP News of the false claims against Kamala Harris and her background.

[daughterofchaos]

Ballad of the Snail (Corrido del Caracol), ca. 1899, by José Guadalupe Posada

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[oldpaintings]

Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), c.1910 by José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (Mexican, 1852--1913)

[random-brushstrokes]

Jose Guadalupe Posada - The Comet Marking the Centennial of Independence (1910)

[shawnfreki]

"Calavera of the Alley Cat"

engraving

José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913)

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Jose Guadalupe Posada

[thedurvin]

I get the appeal of Van Gogh’s “Skeleton Smoking a Cigarette” but have you seen José Guadalupe Posada’s “Skull with a Beard”

[artschoolglasses]

A Witch Carrying a Child on Her Broom, Jose Guadalupe Posada, 1880-1910

From the Met Museum

[jstor]

José Guadalupe Posada was a popular Mexican printmaker now mostly remembered for his satirical calaveras (skeletons), but we love this awesome rooster from the Open Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR!

If you want to see more of his work, including his many calaveras, demons, and drunks (warning, much of it features graphic violence!), you can find more than 500 free images on JSTOR.

[sivavakkiyar]

José Guadalupe Posada, Collision Between Streetcar and a Hearse

and from the intro to Joseph Mitchell’s Up In The Old Hotel

[katiajewelbox]

Feliz Dia de los Muertos!

Dressing up for Dia de los Muertos is a popular tradition in the USA and Mexico. People of all ages and genders wear skeletal makeup with flower crowns or other headdresses along with traditional Mexican clothing or clothing inspired by Pre Columbian cultures at Dia de los Muertos festivals. This is a way of honouring ancestors and celebrating Mexican culture. If the outfits are worn with the correct intentions of celebrating Dia de los Muertos and with an understanding of the cultural significance of the costumes and makeup, it is a tradition anyone can take part in.

My digital self portrait shows me dressed as the character La Calavera Catrina. La Calavera Catrina is the iconic skeleton lady of Dia de los Muertos created by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1910. This is a photo of me with a digital skull makeup filter in front of an ofrenda image created with AI art. The flower crowns and other sparkling details were created using Picmix GIF maker.

I wish everyone celebrating today a safe, joyful, and contemplative Dia de los Muertos!

#DiaDeLosMuertos

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 519

J.G. Posada: Messenger of Mortality

Julian Rothenstein, ed.

Moyer Bell Limited 1989

I think José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) may be one of my favorite artists. His work speaks to so many aspects of my own personality—satirical, humorous, populist, absurd, and with a great appreciation for the morbid. So, I think it’s a bit of a crime that there aren’t more books of his work published in this country. It is estimated that over the course of his career he produced over 20,000 images, but, despite that, he died penniless and forgotten. However, it wouldn’t be long after his passing that he would be rediscovered and studied by such artists as Rivera and Kahlo, and then by Europeans such as Eisenstein and the French surrealists. Posada saw and memorialized life as it happened around him—the working people, riots, natural disasters, suicides, murders, and crimes—but it is his calaveras, the skulls used to commemorate the Day of the Dead, which he used to expose hypocrisy and reveal the ultimate absurdity of humanity, that he is best remembered.

[drzito]

Los esqueletos de Jose Guadalupe Posada.

[callmeanxietygirl]

¿SABÍAS QUE LOS MEXICAS NO SE DISFRAZABAN DE CATRINAS?

Los mexicas NO se pintaban los rostros de calaveras ni se disfrazaban de catrinas.

“La Catrina” no proviene de los mexicas. Es una sátira creada por el caricaturista José Guadalupe Posada que en tiempos del juarismo y el porfiriato se burlaba de los mestizos e indígenas que iban subiendo de nivel económico y pretendía ser europeos y renegaban de su propia raza, herencia y cultura. Se les llamaba los “garbanceros”, precisamente por dedicarse al cultivo y venta de garbanzos.

Entonces José Guadalupe Posada, creó “La Calavera Garbancera” para expresar que los garbanceros andaban «...en los huesos, pero con sombrero francés con sus plumas de avestruz».

Diego Rivera la nombró “La Catrina”, de la palabra “catrín”, que definía (a veces de forma despectiva) a la clase social alta, y la eternizó en su mural “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central”, (la calavera con su estola de plumas aparece junto a José Guadalupe Posada, Diego Rivera como niño y Frida Kahlo).

Imagen: mural “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central”, de Diego Rivera.