La Catrina
La Catrina is a figure that has become symbolic of the Day of the Dead in Mexico and is particularly often depicted on it. In addition to La Catrina, there are other skeletons in the same style, but they are far less known.
origin
The figure was probably created, along with other works, by the Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada to make fun of the pre-revolutionary Mexican upper class under Porfirio Díaz . However, it may even have existed with Manuel Manilla . The representations became particularly popular during the revolution and have therefore found their way into the cultural self-representation of Mexico. At the latest when Diego Rivera took up La Catrina in his painting Sunday Dreaming in the Alameda , the cult of La Catrina had become independent.
Surname
“Catrina” is an expression in Spanish for a wealthy or wealthy person, but with a derogatory and sarcastic undertone.
