Engage in close looking and get new ideas for your own art making with Woman with a Bird Cage (1941) by Rufino Tamayo.
Rufino Tamayo
“Art, like culture, is international. It’s the result of many parts to which we add our own tone.”
—Rufino Tamayo
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1899, Rufino Tamayo developed a creative practice influenced by his Zapotec and Mexican heritage. The Zapotec peoples are the largest Indigenous group in Oaxaca. They have a deep history of art making in the region that spans from precolonial time (before the Spanish conquest of Mexico) to today and encompasses pottery, jewelry, and textiles. Tamayo’s explorations of these works and the international art movements of his time inspired his artistic style.
