La Calavera Catrina - Iconic Mexican Day of the Dead Art by José Guadalupe Posada #2251863 (License: Personal Use)

This 1910-1913 zinc etching by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada depicts a stylish female skeleton (Catrina) wearing an ornate European-style hat, surrounded by other skeletons in festive dress. The image critiques bourgeois aspirations during the Porfiriato era, using satire to highlight mortality’s universality across social classes. It later became central to Día de los Muertos iconography, especially after Diego Rivera incorporated it into his mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central.”

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