A Painter of the Senses

During his career, Rufino Tamayo cultivated a poetics of images, expressed with innovative features. His still-lifes, his interrogative characters, the constellations, the destructive and aggressive forces, the interferences in human communication, technological advances, and eroticism are some of the themes that insistently recur in his paintings. With synthetic forms influenced by the avant-garde and elements that incorporate the powerful pre-Hispanic aesthetic and Mexican popular culture, his works appeal both to sensuality and the intellect. Tamayo is a classic artist, and therefore, of permanent contemporaneity.