Rufino Tamayo
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Rufino Tamayo (Oaxaca 1899 – 1991) Mexican painter. He was contemporary with muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros but his art is markedly different from theirs. His paintings have been displayed in museums throughout the world.
- Tamayo painted on an easel and his models were the masters of Modern Art, Picasso, Cezanne, and Braque. His subjects, however abstractly treated, were Mexican to the core. [1]
"Tres Personajes", 1970, a Tamayo masterpiece, was stolen in 1987, and founded by New Yorker Elizabeth Gibson nestled between rubbish on the street.
Tamayo built an art museum in Oaxaca with collections of pre-Columbian art once owned by artist.
The Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City was opened in 1981. It is a repository for the art collection that artist and his wife Olga acquired during their lifetimes and ultimately gifted to the Mexico.
