Dos personajes atacados por perros

Rufino Tamayo1983

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Title: Dos personajes atacados por perros
Creator: Rufino Tamayo
Creator Lifespan: 1899 - 1991
Creator Nationality: Mexican
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Mexico City, Mexico
Creator Birth Place: Oaxaca, Mexico
Date Created: 1983
Title translation: Two People Attacked by Dogs
Physical Dimensions: w61 x h98 in
About the Work: Tamayo’s view of modernity required an escape from the limitations of nationalism and a search for cosmic meaning, addressing “social” problems in a more universal way. The modern social revolution in art embraced post-war abstract expressionist and surreal tendencies with the incorporation of primitive style imagery. Tamayo’s works are part of a self-described realism that did not reference nature but was an abstraction of human and animal forms, based on architectural and geometric shapes and a primitive sense of proportion and scale, such as in Two People Attacked by Dogs, a colossal Mixograph on Amate paper. Reminiscent of the violence and tragedy of Picasso’s Guernica (1937), it also portrays animals as allegories of war and destruction. Two figures—one male one female—are being chased by a pair of vicious dogs as a metaphor of how humanity is hunted by its own bestiality, fear, and evil, whilst in the never-ending search for humanism within a cosmic perspective of the world.
Type: Mixograph
Rights: Robert Gumbiner Foundation Collection
External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
Medium: Mixography on paper

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