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Biography

Tamayo was Born in Oaxaca, Mexico. He spent alot of time time at the National Museum in Mexico City, drawing archaeological treasures, especially the pre-Columbian objects, which influenced his art for the rest of his life. Tamayo believed in the universality of painting, which put him in direct opposition to the other well-known group of Mexican artists of the time: the muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros. Tamayo’s modern styles made him a object of ridicule for the muralists, who felt that painting should continue to serve revolutionary ideals, even though the Mexican Revolution had occurred in 1910. Having been made so uncomfortable by the muralists in his own country that he felt pressured to leave, Tamayo eventually left for New York, where he lived for more than ten years, teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan and painting a huge body of work. Like Francisco Toledo, he was also a master printmaker and even made his own paper.(continued on the bottom)

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Childrens Games	Dos Hermanos	El Solitario	Figura en Rojo	Fuego
Heavenly Bodies	Hombre en la Puerta	Hombre con Baston	Hombre en Gris	Hombre en Rojo con Sombrero
Mujer de los Tropicos	Personaje con Pajaros	Sandias	Sandias I	Sandias con Manzana en Rojo
Sandias con Manzana en Azul	Sol y Luna	Woman with a Black Coiffe	Women of Tehuantepec	Carnavalesca
Desnudo en Rojo	Familia 1961	Pareja	Ritmo Obrero	Sandias 1941
Sandias 1951	Dos Personajes attacados por Perros	Amigas de los Pajaros	Cazadores de Mariposas

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The color of Tamayo’s paintings is influenced by the people and art of his native land—earth-reds, dull greens, purple, and chrome yellow predominate. His subject matter is drawn from Mexican and pre-Columbian influences as well, and the influence of European artists and movements are also evident in his work. Women of Tehuantepec is no exception—the women and setting are clearly Mexican and are influenced by his childhood experiences at his aunt’s fruit stand. However, the fruit, space, and figures also contain clear references to modern European paintings by his contemporaries.

Rufino Tamayo is known for his intense and beautiful color sense. His later paintings seem to glow. Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and Nobel laureate, has said of him, "If I could express with a single word what it is that distinguishes Tamayo from other painters, I would say, without a moment’s hesitation: sun. For the sun is in all his pictures, whether we see it or not: night itself is for Tamayo simply a sun carbonized."

Eventually, Tamayo was recognized as a great painter in his own right, even by Mexicans who had earlier rejected him. In 1981, the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in Mexico City with a handful of his own paintings and a selection of contemporary works from the collection he had made with his wife, Olga Flores. Included as well are works by artists such as Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Fernand Léger, and Pablo Picasso. This museum joined the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic and Mexican Art, which opened in 1974 in Oaxaca with older works collected by the couple