The Tamayo
A place for modern and contemporary art
Museum of the Month
By Lorena Ávila Jaimes
This museum is an icon in Mexican history, but before we dive in through this space, we need to first get to know the artist Rufino Tamayo.
He had his own “Mexican” style and decided to express his spirituality through his art, contrary to his contemporary and famous colleagues: Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The main difference is that these artists wanted to convey messages from political, social, and nationalist ideas, thanks to the trend created with the post-Mexican Revolution era.
Throughout his career, Tamayo like so many more artists moved to New York, Paris to finally go back to Mexico. With these opportunities and his incredible artworks, he was placed in the international art scene.
He displayed his art in various renowned galleries, in the Venice and Sao Paolo Biennale, and he was even mentioned in an art expo in the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
It would be in 1981 where one of his grandiose works opened doors to the public. Tamayo hired Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, famous Mexican artists and architects.
They wanted to place this museum in the first section of the “Bosque de Chapultepec”…
