Posada Confession of a Skeleton

Life and death of the greatest of Mexican engravers. Like so many other artists thrown a little hastily into a pit commune, José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) only had posterity once dead. Too busy engraving some twenty thousand drawings to find the time to write his own legend, so it is his skeleton that tells us from beyond the grave the artist he was during his lifetime. With the most "deadly" engravings of Posada. The most beautiful engravings of the Mexican master illustrate this biographical story of Samuel Dégardin. A tenacious imagery emerges from it, populated by revolutionaries and of skeletons. Posada is today considered the greatest of Mexican engravers, his drawings inspire illustrators, designers, graphic designers, daily tattoo artists and creators from all over the world. So we have to believe that the career of a An artist can extend himself beyond death and live his life by making a foot from nose to death. "Posada, as great as Goya, creator of inexhaustible wealth. [...] His work, by its form, is entirely plastic; by its content, it is entirely life. »Diego Rivera "The triumph of humor in its purest form." André Breton