Posada: Artist Behind Day Of The Dead Images
By Roque Plans, Huffingtopn Post Latino Voices
An illustrator and political satirist, Posada’s prints of skulls and skeletons left their mark on Mexican popular culture and have become a fixture of Day of the Dead imagery that appears every year around Nov. 1.
Born in the northern Mexican town of Aguascalientes in 1852, Posada began studying art at the age of 18. While serving as an apprentice to printer and graphic artist José Trinidad Pedroza, Posada began to experiment with the political satire and the lithography and etching techniques he would become famous for. Over a career…
This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
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