El Rapto de las Chinas Poblanas

Three panels, showing armed men fighting each other and carring women dressed in china poblana gowns. The title and theme refer to a myth often represented in arts, the abduction of the sabine women, which tells of when roman soldiers robbed women from other group to birth their children in the early days of Rome. This piece specially quotes Jacques Louis David painting 1799 “The intervention of the sabine woman”. Favela's painting situates the action in the city of Puebla and turns the sabine women into chinas poblanas. Favela is an artist who paints and draws. He also worked in TV Educativa and also director of an advertising agency. His work is figurative, often portraying human figures in the middle of an action as in a photograph. El rapto de las chinas poblanas.