Rufino Tamayo

Born: August 26, 1899; Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico Died: June 24, 1991; Mexico City, Mexico Nationality: Mexican Art Movement: Expressionism, Surrealism, Muralism, Indigenism Field: painting, printmaking, lithography, drawing, etching Soundtrack: Luigi Boccherini Quintette pour guitare et cordes "del Fandango" Marc Jaby, guitare Quatuor Stanislas Laurent Causse & Bertrand Menut (violons) Marie Triplet (alto) Jean de Spengler (violoncelle) Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter and printmaker known for his large-scale frescoes and vivid colors. Like Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, Tamayo draws attention to Mexican art. Influenced by modern movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism, Tamayo inserts motifs from his native country into his figurative paintings. Born August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tamayo left the Academy of San Carlos after one year and began to learn on his own. He moved to New York in the 1930s after falling out with the activist artists of his country. Tamayo's work is exhibited in museums around the world, including the New York Museum, the Naples Museum of Art in Florida, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. returned to his country in 1959, where he died on June 24, 1991 in Mexico City at the age of 91. In 1981, he founded the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo which houses his collection of modern art and the Museo Rufino Tamayo located in his hometown presents his extensive pre-Columbian collection