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(Oaxaca, 1899-Mexico, 1991) Mexican painter.  Tamayo studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City.  While teaching classes, he pursued his creative projects. He lived for twenty eight years outside of his country, first living in New York and then in Paris.  His mural, entitled Ciclopea, located in the Archaelogical Museum of Mexico, is considered to have been created in the purest Mexican style.  This work symbolizes the struggle between the day (represented by a feathered snake) and the night (represented by a tiger). Another of his murals, perhaps the grandest of his works, is entitled America (1956). His works began in the style of expressionism. Later he went through a period of cubism and then finally abstract. In the nineteen- forties he used various photographs to introduce the theme of tropical, Mexican life into his works, using clear and brilliant colors. He painted many canvases using abstract forms and used enriched layers with distinctive textures. Examples of this are: Beast wound (1953), The Man of the Telephone (1956). In the nineteen-seventies, he began a new type of printed artwork, called ¨mixografia¨ using hand-made paper and created with etchings and molded relief: (Man with Pipe, 1979). Meanwhile, he continued his work as a muralist.

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