Oxacana Cavalera
Printmaking is important because a lot of artists find a way to express what they want through it, like a lot of artists find their happiness in printmaking. Also, a lot of process are involved in the printmaking. It also inspired other streams of art, like graffiti.
The invention of printmaking was revolutionary for multiple reasons. The most relevant one is probably that it allows to produce multiple images, it was totally new at this time. It also made a redemption with the other styles of art at this time, mainly when it has been discovered in Europe.
I find this printmaking interesting because it translates a lot of expressions and feelings through a skull. It represents the Mexican Day of the Dead, which is a very important event outhere. This artist is very satirical in his drawings, we can see as well that the people behind him are bourgeois, the main character is actually the representation of what these people are afraid of, he is the allegory of the poor mexican people that terrorise the higher class.
(Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-calaveras-of-jose-guadalupe-posada/)
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