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After Posada's death in 1913, his calaveras became a symbol for Día de Los Muertos. La calavera Catrina, originally calavera Garbancera, was a social critique of those who wanted to look up to the European bourgeoisie and despised their own Mexican-ness.
Oct 21, 2020 · Santa Muerte (Saint Death) and la Catrina Calavera (the Skeleton Dame) engage not only millions of North and South Americans but also many Europeans in rituals that reconnect us with our own...
Dec 14, 2023 · The uniquely Mexican calaveras are also based in the Mexican Indigenous tradition and belief system that death is a companion ever-present in a person’s life. Life is but a borrowed moment in time, for we all start our journey to the end of life from the moment we are born.
Oct 14, 2022 · Santa Muerte (Saint Death or Holy Death) and la Catrina Calavera (the Skeleton Dame) engage not only millions of North and South Americans but also more and more Europeans in rituals that...
El Dia de los Muertos y las Calaveras with Jose Guadalupe Posada. “Posada nos dice que todos somos muertos bajo la carne”–Posada tells us that we are all dead beneath the flesh (Ruiz, Alonso, El México de José Guadalupe Posada, 2019). The art of José Guadalupe Posada ((1852-1913) reminds us—in stark black and white–of our mortality.
Oct 25, 2018 · Whether it is under the scythe of Santa Muerte during the festivities of Dia de los Muertos, or in the “elegant” image of Calavera Catrina, death plays a central role in the daily lives of Mexicans and continues to provide a potent image for the inevitable cycles of life.
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Perhaps the most famous of Posada’s calaveras is La Calavera de la Catrina, the skeleton of a high-society lady wearing a large, fancy hat. This figure, in particular, has become an icon of the Mexican Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
