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Rufino Tamayo: The Tenth Decade
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THE ARTS
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3 / 1991 |
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There is no exact count of Rufino Tamayo's works; a catalogue raisonne now in preparation will take many years to complete, as it is estimated that the Mexican master has painted several thousand works so far in his long lifetime.
The 91-year-old artist has had 172 one-man exhibitions of his paintings in many countries on four continents, the first held in 1926 when he was twenty-seven. The United States has been home to sixty-seven such shows.
Tamayo's art is based on the folk art of Mexico as well as the glories of modern art. His colors are rich and refined, strong and logical; his forms, playful and fantastic. His vision of reality is that of a great poet.
In 1986 Tamayo stated: "I will never retire; more over, I firmly believe I will die painting." Although after open heart surgery in November of 1989 Tamayo could no longer work his customary eight hours a day at his easel, he has still managed to finish several canvases of varying size and has supervised an edition of a series of lithographs.
Tamayo noted in a conversation with a friend that "Time hasn't overtaken me, but it ought to be longer. The problems involved in painting are so extensive that ninety years are not enough to achieve all that one would wish." One suspects that two other nonagenarians, Titian and Picasso, would have understood what he was talking about.
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