Page 55 - Studio International - November 1965
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Tamayo at Zurich


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                                                                                     Rufino  Tamayo,  born  1889,  continues  to  paint  in  the
                                                                                    imagery  of  his  native  Zapotec  Indian  heritage  refined
                                                                                    and enlarged by his study and immersion in the worlds
                                                                                    of  Mexico and Paris.  Nothing  primitive but the associa­
                                                                                    tion of birds, animals and masks find their way through
                                                                                    the  high  keyed  colours  of  his  luminous  oils  where
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                                                                                    fantasy  and  carnival  oin  hands in paintings that have
                                                                                    the  overall  integration  of  frescoes  where  each  area
                                                                                    counts against another.
                                                                                      Until December at the Galerie Semi ha Huber, Zurich, the
                                                                                    Mexican artist is showing twenty recent oil paintings of
                                                                                    which three are reproduced. They represent a consistency
                                                                                    and  strength  that  merit  further  exhibition  elsewhere.
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                                                                                    Head  1965
                                                                                    Oil  45  x  60 cm.
                                                                                    Galerie  Sem1ha  Huber
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                                                                                    Man  with  a  Rattle
                                                                                    Oil  100  x  81  cm.
                                                                                    Galene Sem,ha  Huber
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                                                                                    Black  Venus  1965
                                                                                    011  100  x  81  cm.
                                                                                    Galene  Sem,ha  Huber
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