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Mexican skull in Mexico City. #271797885
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The Mexican calavera is certainly one of the most singular and at the same time the most widespread and peculiar figures of Mexican popular culture. Its origins are to be found in an ideal meeting between pre-Hispanic Death and the "dances macabre" of medieval Europe, a meeting which through the genius of Josè Guadalupe Posada, an unwitting 19th century artist, gives life to a representation of totally new death, a death with a human face, not at all frightening or alluding to the sad and inevitable end but absolutely vital and witty.
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