J Michael Walker. Sacre Conversazione: Guadalupe con Don Cesar. 2000 Color pencil on paper, 50” x 40”
What I wanted to emphasize about Don Cesar is the way he embodied a very different model of how to be a strong leader: not by threatening to harm his opponents (as most politicians do), but by showing what the suffering of his people looks like - by taking on, in an almost eucharistic fashion, their suffering.
Painting By Sal Preciado El Clasico Tattoo …. ECHOxPARQUE
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from The Seven Names of Tonantzin: Artwork of La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Peña Gallery
J. Michael Walker. Retablo de la Virgen Indigena. 1995. Color pencil and gold leaf on paper, 22” x 24”.
This piece is loosely based on the forms of Byzantine icons - hence all the gold leafing. Not only is the background gold leafed, so also is the decoration of Guadalupe’s cloak and dress (a true exercise in all-thumbs agility and patience).
New poster by Ester Hernandez against SB 1070 in Arizona.
Ester Hernández. Wanted: Terrorist, La Virgen de Guadalupe. 2010. Silk Screen, 20” x 30”
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