Rufino Tamayo: The Sources Of His Art

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Gary Conclin

Copyright: Registered 26Jun73 · MP24548 (Jul-Dec 1973) Copyright holder: Gary Robert Conklin

Complete Record: Pictures the artist Rufino Tamayo at work, both painting and preparing a lithograph. Shows the development of Tamayo's style, using representative paintings from the early 1930's to the present day, and points out the pre-Columbian and contemporary Mexican sources and inspiration which have greatly influenced his painting. CU shots of Tamayo painting and drawing and working with clay; of his hands, he work table, his work in stages from sketching through painting. Shots of Urban and traditional life. Shots of the things Tamayo paints (fruit) paired with his interpretations. Both traditional native/Mexican music and Western/European music. Extensive interviews, both in VO over other images and in setting. Shots of ruins of native architecture. Translations and interpretations of Tamayo’s philosophy.