Kandidat
Floating in a soft pink square, this tiny ink portrait depicts a bearded man in profile, looking rather serious for such a whimsical layout. The Spanish text below reveals he's a political candidate hoping to become president, making a clever pun on his facial hair—the word 'perilla' means both 'goatee' and 'perfectly.' This piece comes from the legendary Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, a master of social satire who used his art to mock the corrupt elite during the Porfiriato era. It's a great example of how he turned political ambition into a visual joke, likely originally printed in a cheap chapbook for the masses.
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