The Museo de Bellas Artes Mexicanas is now the Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano [sic--don't you love words that can't figure out what gender they are?], but now much seems to have changed besides the name. The exhibition of ofrendas is still engrossing and affecting and the Mondragón family is still there personalising skulls, although this year they were joined by four other artisans: Two makers of catrinas (one working in clay, the other papier-mâché), a printmaker offering lovely sepiatones of dancing skeletons, and a charming woodcarver offering a stunning array of meticulously painted animal figures. (Pictures, lhn?)
Alas, photography wasn't allowed in the ofrenda exhibit, but I did get some pictures of the artisans' work, e.g.:
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:00 am (UTC)Alas, photography wasn't allowed in the ofrenda exhibit, but I did get some pictures of the artisans' work, e.g.:
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