Jose Guadalupe Posada had a mind so sharp and a hand so sure that legend has it he could dash off a satiric illustration in just a few minutes. It may also explain why he is rumored to have produced as many as 20,000 original images. Yet Posada was, most of all, a man of the people whose work chronicled the Mexican Revolution, inspiring some of Mexico's most famous modern artists and providing continuing themes for the papier-mache skeleton art still hugely popular today.
Dr. Patrick Frank, assistant professor of Latin American art history at the University of Kansas and author of ÒPosadaÕs Broadsheets: Popular Imagery in Mexico City, 1890-1910,Ó will present a lecture on Posada as part of an introduction to Day of the Dead celebrations on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003, in Building 30 on the campus of California State University, Monterey Bay.
The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a lecture on the Day of the Dead by Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, head of the Department of Visual and Public Art at CSUMB, followed by Dr. FrankÕs talk. Pan dulce and hot chocolate will be served.
Day of the Dead starter kits will be distributed.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 582-3005.
What: Lecture by art historian Patrick Frank
When: 6:30 p.m., Oct. 23, 2003
Where: CSUMB Music Hall, Building 30, on Sixth Avenue
Cost: Free, but parking fee must be paid
Information: Vicky Franco, 582-3130.