Firulais’s Passion

In the piece Pasión de Firulais (Firulais’s Passion), he paints a portrait of a famous clown from Jalisco, Federico Ochoa (1907-1988), a wealthy family man who, at the same time, used to wander the downtown streets in a wheelchair. He depicts him with a head crowned with thorns, symbol of Christian passion, and a smile almost grimacing with pain. The scale of the painting accentuates the dramatic quality of the old paradox of the clown that makes everyone laugh and have fun despite his own suffering.