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Demetrio Garcia Aguilar |
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Josefina Aguilar's son, Demetrio Garcia Aguilar, has taken the clay art form he learned from his mother and carried it to a whole new level in folk art. His work is richly colored, exquisitely-detailed, and strongly masculine in style. Combining his families' folk art tradition with his own technique of combining paint with clay to achieve the texture that gives his figures such complexity, Demetrio creates fantastic handcrafted muñecas with personal interpretations of religious, cultural, and family themes. Today in his early 40's, Demetrio is a respected artist in his own right, and he frequently travels to the United States to work with schools, museums, and galleries. Here, Demetrio's figures are from the Comparsa, a carnival-like procession celebrated in Oaxaca during the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) festivities. Although not a traditional Day of the Dead event, the Comparsa has emerged due to the mingling of cultures over time. In this Halloween-like event, you will often see children running around in masks asking passersby for candy, small toys, or money. The Comparsa, or procession, features fully-costumed performers, or 'tricksters', and those costumed with the festival's most important symbol, the skull, which probably comes from the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecutli, who was depicted with a skull-like face on many artifacts. Now, however, it is a symbol to celebrate death and the dearly departed. |
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#DGA 06 Confessional 1 6"H x 6"W $188.00 SOLD |
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#DGA 07 Confessional 2 6"H x 6"W $188.00 |
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#DGA 08 Day of the Dead Woman and
Turkies 5.5"H x 5.5"W $188.00 |
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#DGA 09 Nahual 5.5"H x 5.5"W $144.00 |
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#DGA 01 Day of the Dead Woman |
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#DGA 02 Day of the Dead Devil Merman 4"H x 2.5"W x 4.5"L $76.00 SOLD |
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#DGA 03 Day of the Dead Woman with Skeleton Turkey 5.5"H x 2"W $76.00 |
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#DGA 04 Wall Hanging by Demetrio Aguilar Some of his earliest works. Mid 1990's 11"H x 14"W $325.00 |
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#DGA 05 Demetrio Aguilar's Frida Kahlo "Little Deer" Collected in early 2000 5.5"L x 4"W x 4.5"H $140.00 |
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1/28/12 |
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