In week three of #HispanicHeritageMonth, we are looking at the life and work of Rufino Tamayo 🎨⁣ ⁣ Rufino Tamayo favored using few colors rather than many; he asserted that fewer colors in a painting gave the art greater force and meaning. He said of his approach, "As the number of colors we use decreases, the wealth of possibilities increases". Two art worlds collide in Tamayo’s work: Mexican folk art and European modernism. A Mexican painter with indigenous Zapotec heritage, Tamayo was born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico in 1899. He first studied art at the San Carlos Academy, and soon began to experiment with the different "isms" originating in Paris: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. After the Mexican Revolution, Tamayo devoted himself to creating a distinct identity in his work. His work focused on what he imagined as the traditional Mexico and moved away from the overt political art of such contemporaries as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Oswaldo Guayasamín and David Alfaro Siqueiros.