Tamayo, Rufino

Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted

Rufino Arellanes Tamayo was a leading Modernist who brought Mexico international acclaim through his development of a new form of abstract figuration, that ultimately made him one of the most recognized and respected painters of the twentieth century. A Zapotecan Indian born in the state of Oaxaca in 1889, he was exposed as a young man to the cultural wealth of pre-Colombian Mexico while working as a draftsman at the National Museum of Archeology in Mexico City. While his contemporaries Siqueiros, Rivera and Orozco were advocating art with a message, often political, Tamayo's work focused on plastic forms integrated with a masterful use of colors and textures. Early in his creative life, Tamayo kept strict linear perspective, and later he explored Cubist issues, but in the end he created a style that was all his own, participating in the development of "Mixografia," a graphic technique used to obtain colored and textured three-dimensional printing on handmade paper. Published on the occasion of the first major U.S. exhibition of Tamayo's work in nearly 30 years, curated by Diana C. du Pont with Juan Carlos Pereda, Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted offers a comprehensive view of the artist's work throughout his life, accompanied by eight wide-ranging essays featuring fresh new readings from top scholars. This detailed study of Tamayo's creative methodology is the most complete book on the artist to be published in more than 10 years.

Prints Of Rufino Tamayo, The (Artes Visuales Turner)

This bilingual (English-Spanish) catalogue raisonna of Rufino Tumayo's prints will reproduce in color every print--including xylographies, lithographies, silkscreens, artist's books, and the late mixographies--ever made by the great Mexican artist. Tamayo made approximately 320 prints between 1925 and 1991. Many of them were made using different inks, and these ink colors are respected in the catalogue's printing; in several cases, the printing processes themselves will also be reproduced. Comprehensive and expert commentary is made on each print regarding print-run, workshop, and publisher. This project has taken the Tamayo Museum and Foundation in Mexico City almost ten years of research to complete.

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo: Fifty years of his painting : [exhibition] the Phillips Collection, October 7 to November 16, 1978, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, January 6 to February 17, 1979

Rufino Tamayo: 70 Años de Creacion

Catalogue of the exhibition of Rufino Tamayo artwork at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, December 1987 to March 1988. Large-format softcover with biography, essays, approx. 200 pages of color plates.

Los murales de Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo, Myth and Magic.

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo, Coleccion De Arte 6

Yellow cloth, purple illustrated jacket. 132 illustrations, 4 are in color. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sculptures and Mixographs by Rufino Tamayo

It is with great pleasure that the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum presents the exhibition "Sculptures and Mixographs by Rufino Tamayo." This exhibition is the first solo exhibit in Chicago of Mexico's foremost living artist. Tamayo, who said "being Mexican was essential to my development as an artist" is a master surrealist, abstractionist, colorist, and humanist. Tamayo has dramatically interpreted Mexico in an international level so that everyone can understand Mexico. Through is prolific and splendid artistic career he has suceeded in universalizing Mexico. --Quote from page 42 by Helen Valdez, President of Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum