A colleague sent me this link to a video showing Mexican men dancing in really pointy shoes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEiMA3QtYWc.
It is so fascinating to watch their surroundings, creativity, innovation, perspectives and use of technology. How interesting, the way they talk and the social strata they make up in that particular part of Mexico. This video brought back memories because my niece used to talk about the Mexican boys and their pointy shoes who used to hit on her in high school.
If you go into most any Mexican “border town,” you’ll get the chance to see the cheap and cheezy artwork for the tourists. They also have some pretty fabulous artwork but it’s going to cost you!
Contemplating on Mexico’s high end, high art, I consider my favorite Mexican Master to be Rufino Arellanes Tamayo, (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1899–1991). How ironic, some of his work ended up as trash in New York! http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Rufino_Tamayo-Tres-Personajes.html. Trust me, his works are anything but trash!!
I’ve had the opportunity to travel into the interior of Mexico and have viewed some of the exotic artworks of Mexico’s indigenous people like the Tarahumara, Olmec, Aztec and Maya. Rufino Tamayo is Zapotec and from Oaxaca. I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting but, someday, I will. I wonder if his ancestors spoke Mayan since that culture extended from the north of Mexico’s peninsula, Yucatan, to Guatemala? I have family in Yucatan. They speak Mayan and told me Mayan is being taught in schools there, and in Guatemala also, since it is part of their heritage and they don’t want the language to die. I love that the legends down there are always in Spanish, Mayan and English.
Why am I drawn to Rufino Tayayo’s work so much more than, say, Diego Rivera’s. I think, this explains it. “Although his (Rufino Tamayo’s) work is embedded with distinctly Mexican roots, both in color and in subject, Tamayo’s art is ultimately a response to universal and not temporal matters.” http://www.mexonline.com/history-tamayo.htm.
Need to make it to Oaxaca, badly!!
Reference listings:
http://ask.lc.mwh.reference.com/related/Rufino+Tamayo?o=10601&qsrc=2892&l=dir
Sunday 16 thru Saturday 22, 2011
This blog will have some history of my work in graphics and my intend to enhance my command of Adobe Illustrator. I believe Illustrator has always saved me professionally. I’ve never been even remotely close to being a “guru” but, honestly, Illustrator got me into the working world of corporate America. I’ve “played” with this application since the 80s. Now I don’t remember how or which Adobe Illustrator version/number I’ve actually used for “professional” work. When I was introduced to Illustrator, the MACs the company had, ran on 4 mgs of ram! I think now computers use DRAM, so, maybe, RAM doesn’t even exist anymore? OK, think of RAM as archaic RAM sticks, does that help? Dude, the new MACs will have flash drives, hard drives will be a thing of the past!
This blog’s background shows my attempts to create my business cards with Illustrator for print. I think I must have tried about 7–9 different angles. I’m not going to delve into specific details about the technique. But, the effect was performed with the simple use of the type, pen and blend tool. If you’d like details let me know and I’ll get them to you. I never had any of these business cards printed. Just couldn’t justify the expense—maybe, these really are hard times. Still, when I created a PDF portfolio, the concept served me well.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55648749@N08/sets/
Much of my “professional” work was for print and very conservative. (If you take a good look at my portfolio, it does take on a rather “industrial” look.) So, I will also reflect a little on my experiences associated with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and, maybe, Acrobat. Presently, I’m trying to get a genealogical book out but the author keeps adding pictures and editing the text. Patience and prozac really help. We’ve been working on this book for 3 years. We’ll talk?
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