Location: Barrio el Salvador, Medellin, Colombia.
Artist: Unknown.
Dates: Created in the in the first semester of this year.
Greetings, friends of urban art, Today I want to share this little work and show you this finding. Walking with my daughter, we entered this colorful space full of art, and it is impossible not to have many feelings about it. It is colorful, meaningful, feminine, big and majestic, a mixture of history, tradition, and symbolism, and who can not like a katrina? Everything about it is enveloping.
A Mexican symbol with more than 100 years of historyThe Day of the Dead, a holiday deeply rooted in Mexican culture, is a colorful and lively celebration that honors and remembers deceased loved ones. One of the most recognized icons of this celebration is La Catrina, an elegantly dressed skeletal figure that symbolizes death as an intrinsic part of life and culture. Her image has been used in various forms of art and design, and is now a distinctive and recognizable element of the celebration of this holiday, La Catrina is an iconic character and figure of Mexican culture, especially associated with the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican celebration that honors the deceased, has its roots in Mexican iconography and was popularized by the famous Mexican painter, illustrator and caricaturist from Aguascalientes, José Guadalupe Posada, in the early 20th century, during the post-revolutionary era in Mexico.
Many are the details that make Katrina so meaningful: always roses to give; the caravel is the most significant seal; the candle is present because they must light the way to their dead; a colorful feast; it may be antagonistic between images full of color and joy and a symbol of death, but I think it is a perfect mix between pain and happiness. It is quite difficult to understand, and even more so if you are not from a Spanish-speaking culture, but the truth is that Katrina is undoubtedly a strong symbol of the celebration of life and death.
Undoubtedly a great job, and beyond being a recurring figure in Mexican food spaces, we must always rescue the art in any space, and this has certainly been of great satisfaction. Thank you for reading my work and for always supporting me.
💻 Escrito por mí.
📸 Cámara y edición: Tecno Camon 20 pro
🖇️ Translator DeepL
