Museo Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a popular modern Mexican painter. He was a Zapotec Indian and was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca. Tamayo was an outsider in post Revolutionary Mexico, politically neutral and opposing the muralists’ commitment to a public, popular art. His own paintings draw on Mexican folk art and ceramics for their themes and in their rich use of colour and texture, but their sophisticated compositions are more closely indebted to Cubism.
In his paintings, Tamayo expressed what he believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings that many of his contemporaries such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros did. Tamayo and another artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to create a new type of printed artwork called “Mixografia.†This consisted of artwork printed on paper but with depth and texture. One of their most famous Mixografia is entitled “Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros (Two Characters Attacked by Dogs).†Some of Tamayo’s art has been shown in museums such as The Philips Collection in Washington and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Museo Rufino Tamayo (Museum) : Mexico City
Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art (Rufino Tamayo Museo de Arte Prehispanico de Mexico): Oaxaca City
Rufino Tamayo was born in the City of Oaxaca, on August 26, 1899. His real name is Rufino Arellanes Tamayo. He does not come from an artistic background since his father was an employee, his mother, homemaker. He was acolyte at the church where he directed choirs, leading some people to notice a slight religious vocation in him.
In this environment, his fondness and interest focused toward music, and his parents wished for him to become a priest and a musician. Of his musical inclination,
Alfa Cultural Center (Centro Cultural (Planetario) Alfa) : Monterrey
Known for its Planetarium, Alfa's cultural center encompasses a museum of science, art and technology. The planetarium is equipped with a state of the art Omnimax system with an 85% surround capability on its 24 square meter screen. The museum itself is made up of five levels which hold permanent exhibits with different themes, including the company's history and mexican prehistoric art. It is one of Monterrey's most powerful industrial conglomerates, Grupo Alfa, is architect and sponsor of the Centro Cultural Alfa. The center is open to the public and sponsors
Palacio de Bellas Artes
The Palacio de Bellas Artes ("Palace of Fine Arts") is an opera house in Mexico City. It was designed by the Italian architect Adamo Boari in 1901 but construction was not completed until 1934.
The building is famous for both its extravagant Art Nouveau exterior in imported Italian white marble as well as its murals by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco
(Rivera's "Man in Control of the Universe" (or "Man at the Crossroads") mural was originally painted for the Rockefeller Center in New York City but Rockefeller ordered it destroyed for being too
Museo de Arte Moderno (National Museum of Modern Art)
Mexico City's national Museum of Modern Art, located just slightly northeast of Chapultapec Castle in Chapultapec Park. The main building is a round, two-story structure with a central staircase. Two of the museum's four spaces showcase the permanent collection, which also contains works by Mexico's other modern masters.
Artists
Raul Anguiano, Lilia Carrillo, Leonora Carrington , Julio Castellanos, Pedro Coronel, Fernando GarcÃa Ponce, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Lilia Carrillo, Manuel Felguerez, Jesus Guerrero Galvan, Alberto Gironella, MarÃa Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo , Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, Roberto Montenegro, Gerardo Murillo, Juan O'Gorman, Gilberto Aceves
Monterrey is the capital city of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, well known for its industries, particularly beer, finance, glass, and steel. Carta Blanca, Bohemia, Sol, Casta, Indio, XX, and Nochebuena are examples of the beers produced in the city. Vitro figures as one of the most important glass factories in North America. Cemex, the world wide conglomerate of cement, concrete, and building materials, has its headquarters there, as well as Banorte, the only large Mexican bank controlled by Mexicans. The steel industry used to be led by the "CompañÃa Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey", popularly known
Museo Nacional de la Estampa (Museum of Engraving)
Displays include those from pre-Hispanic times, when clay seals were used for designs on fabrics, ceramics, and other surfaces. But the most famous works here are probably those of José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico's famous printmaker, who poked fun at death and politicians through his skeleton figure drawings.
Museo: Monterrey
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The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. It stands on the banks of the RÃo Aguascalientes, 1888 metres above sea level, at 21°51′ N 102°18′ W.
The city was founded on 22 October 1575 and elevated to city status in 1816. It became the capital of the newly formed state when it was split off from neighbouring Zacatecas in 1835.
People from Aguascalientes (both the city and the state) are known by the whimsical Spanish demonym hidrocálidos.
The city is home to the first-division football team, Necaxa. Aguascalientes also organises the largest fair held
Museo Ripley's Ciudad de Mexico: Mexico City
