Lecture On JG Posada Sept 16, 2018 In Turlock, CA

Director of the Posada Art Foundation, Jim Nikas, will explore the life and artworks of Mexican printmaker and illustrator, José Guadalupe Posada. FREE!

Link for Directions: https://www.heyturlock.com/event/arts-lecture-jim-nikas/

San Jose State University Screening of Art and Revolutions

Screening of Art and Revolutions PLUS a traveling exhibition on Posada and the Penny Press!

Date and Time:
Thursday 12/7/17, 5:00pm-6:00pm
Art Lecture Hall, Room #133
Department of Art & Art History
San José State University
Located on 9th Street Plaza, SJSU Campus, San José, CA 95112
http://www.sjsu.edu/map/

LINK Below:

http://events.ha.sjsu.edu/art/events/documentary-screening-searching-posada-art-revolutions/

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT!

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT!
2015 JEROME 89A FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
http://jeromefilmfestival.com/winners/

http://www.examiner.com/article/jerome-89a-film-festival-awards-robust-selection-of-local-international-films

Seismopolite.com Publishes Article on José Guadalupe Posada and Chicano Art

Chicano Art, Imagery of Social Movements and José Guadalupe Posada The Taller de Grafica Popular (Mexico City); the ASARO (Asambleadelos Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca, Mexico), Consejo Grafico, The Royal Chicano Airforce (both United States); and collectively the Chicano Art movement (United States) are but a few examples of how Posada's role has inspired artists and artist collectives dedicated to producing art to effect social change.

Read all about it at:

http://seismopolite.com/chicano-art-imagery-of-social-movements-and-jose-guadalupe-posada

 

Sonoma International Film Festivals Results

The Sonoma International Film Festival was a big hit! www.sonomafilmfest.org. The first screening of ART and Revolutions was soldout at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, screening on March 28. The film was introduced by the new CEO of the San Francisco based Mexican Museum, Cayetana S. Gomez www.mexicanmuseum.org.

A second screening was set up to allow for the those who could not be seated for the first screening. The second screening was at La Luz Community Center which we believe would have put a smile on JG Posada's face as the center provides services to many people in the community most of whom are from Mexico. The   second screening was introduced by the new Cultural Attache of the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco, Paula Linares Cruz, http://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/sanfrancisco/.
The director, Victor Mancilla flew in from
Los Angeles to take part in the question and answer sessions that followed the screening.

Frida Kahlo and José Guadalupe Posada

Posada's art has influenced many artists over the years. One was Frida Kahlo. The images shown here in this blog posting show striking similarities. Here is a partial quote from an interview of Frida conducted back in 1933.

"I had gone up to the Barbizon-Plaza hotel to interview Frida Kahlo, who was the wife of Diego Rivera, and a great painter herself, a sort of demonic surrealist. That was when Rivera was doing those Rockefeller Center murals. Thumb-tacked all along the walls of the hotel suite were some very odd engravings printed on the cheapest kind of newsprint. "Jose Guadalupe Posada," Kahlo said, almost reverentially. "Mexican. 1852-1913." She told me that she had put the pictures up herself so she could glance at them now and then and keep her sanity while living in New York City. Some were broadsides. "They show sensational happenings that took place in Mexico City--in streets and in markets and in churches and in bedrooms," Kahlo said, "and they were sold on the streets by peddlers for pennies." --from the book Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell (1992).

Perhaps some of the images by Posada of disasters and the demonic elements present in many of the sensational broadsides made an impression on Frida. If she was not already familiar with Posada's images, being married to Diego Rivera may have helped as he had just a few years earlier in 1930 authored the Foreword about Posada in the Monografia Posada published by Francis Toor.  

The Earliest Reference to Posada and Vanegas Arroyo

One of the first people to publish a reference about Jose Guadalupe Posada and Antonio Vanegas Arroyo was Mexican painter, printmaker, writer and some say also a volcanologist, Gerardo Murillo (Jalisco, Guadalajara, b. 1875 - d. 1964). He signed his works as "Dr. Atl" (atl = the Nahuatl word for water). Pictured here is the front cover to the two volume set of Los Artes Populares de Mexico published in 1922; five years after the death of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo and nine years after the death of Posada. In the second volume Dr. Atl briefly reviews printmaking and aspects of literature such as songs, religious works and what might be called "tabloid-like" publications of Mexico. The publishing house of Vanegas Arroyo is discussed and grabador "Guadalupe Posadas" is very briefly mentioned; significantly, the printing house is described as one of the leading printing establishments of it kind and for the time. A variety of Posada's images are pictured in the volume, some of the engravings/etchings are signed by Posada and some unassigned images are also reproduced.