Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Arellanes Tamayo ( born August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca de Juárez, † 24 June 1991) was a Mexican painter Zapotec origin.
After his mother's death, Tamayo moved to Mexico City in 1911 to live with relatives. There he took lessons from 1915 in the evening classes of the Academia de San Carlos, in 1917, he became a student at Leandro Izaguirre and Roberto Montenegro. From 1921 he was Head of the Department of Ethnographic Drawing at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, and from 1928 to 1930 he taught at the ENBA.
In his work he dealt mainly with the traditions of Mexico. He was so dominant in his time away from the flow of the painting to pay a political message, as did, for example, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He developed a new kind of art, Mixografie called, whose best-known example is the work of Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros.
His paintings and Mixografien were like the Philips Collection Washington, DC and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York exhibited in renowned museums. In 1959 was Rufino Tamayo participated in the documenta II in Kassel and in 1980 a member of the Academia de Artes.