A life in Art

Rufino Tamayo is an artist of great importance for contemporary culture in Mexico. The contributions of his work are seen not only in the field of color, but also in his innovative and personal iconography, which he constructed with creative, original elements from the Pre-Hispanic art of Mexico.

Tamayo also cultivated certain inspired and spontaneous forms of popular art, and incorporated into his paintings eclectic features from some of the international vanguards from the beginning of the 20th century. With these elements and his prodigious talent, he achieved a unique and new poetics that saturates one of the most captivating pictorial oeuvres in the history of modern art in Mexico.

The art of Tamayo manifests, through its symbols, metaphors and poetic imagery, his reflection on universal topics such as the absolute, the relative, and the sublime, expressed in the duality of human nature.