José Obregón
artist
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Latin American art
- In Latin American art: Realism
…The Discovery of Pulque (1869), José Obregón adapted the architecture represented in pre-Columbian Mixtec codices, but he misread the indigenous cross-sectioned conceptualization of temples, interpreting it as a naturalistic design for a throne. Obregón and his academic colleagues could not understand that the pre-Columbian codex painter had not intended to…
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