Rufino Tamayo

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Sandías (Tamayo)
Sandías (Tamayo)
by Rufino Tamayo
Mexican modernist · mid-20th c.
Slabs of crimson watermelon arranged as if for a sacrificial altar — Rufino Tamayo returned to the same subject for decades, turning a peasant still life into national emblem.