Calavera Maderista
Meet the ultimate revolutionary party animal: a strutting skeleton sporting a massive sombrero, a striped serape, and a magnificent handlebar mustache. This is a 'Calavera Maderista' by José Guadalupe Posada, created during the Mexican Revolution to satirize the followers of leader Francisco Madero. The skeleton clutches a bottle of aguardiente (firewater), likely mocking the drunkenness and chaos of the uprising. Posada was the master of the calavera—using skeletons to show that death is the great equalizer, stripping away political titles and social status. Originally printed on cheap paper for street broadsides, these witty, macabre images are now iconic symbols of Mexican culture and the Day of the Dead.
- Technique
- engraving
- Material
- paper
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