Death Translation to Spanish, pronunciation, and forum discussions. Packrat Recipes and Card Info Use the Packrat Recipes and Card Info Wiki tool to find out collection information packrat recipes, draws, markets, card counts, feat. La Catrina Mexicos grande dame of death. Photo Courtesy Mexican Museum. Image 1 of 9. Jose Guadalupe Posadas original La Calavera Catrina, circa 1. Jose Guadalupe Posadas original La Calavera Catrina, circa 1. Calavera Day Of The Dead Game' title='Calavera Day Of The Dead Game' />Courtesy Mexican Museum. Jose Guadalupe Posadas original La Calavera Catrina, circa 1. Jose Guadalupe Posadas original La Calavera Catrina, circa 1. Courtesy Mexican Museum. Photo Courtesy Mexican Museum. Image 2 of 9. Photo Conservapedia. Image 3 of 9. Elegantly dressed and often flirtatious, La Catrina has become a symbol Da de los Muertos and the Mexican willingness to laugh at death. Elegantly dressed and often flirtatious, La Catrina has become a symbol Da de los Muertos and the Mexican willingness to laugh at death. Photo Tomascastelazo, Wikipedia. Image 4 of 9. Catrinas of every hue, ready for Day of the Dead duty, beckon shoppers in Guanajuatos market. Guanajuato Catrinas of every hue, ready for Day of the Dead duty, beckon shoppers in Guanajuatos market. Ricardo Espinosa Mexico Tourism Board less. Catrinas of every hue, ready for Day of the Dead duty, beckon shoppers in Guanajuatos market. Guanajuato Catrinas of every hue, ready for Day of the Dead duty, beckon shoppers in Guanajuatos market. Photo Ricardo Espinosa, Mexico Tourism Board. Image 5 of 9. A life size Catrina greets visitors to the gift shop at the Museo de Arte Popular, a stellar introduction to folk art from all over Mexico, in the Centro Historico. Mexico City A life size Catrina greets visitors to the gift shop at the Museo de Arte Popular, a stellar introduction to folk art from all over Mexico, in the Centro Historico. Christine DelsolSpecial to SFGate. ONE TIME USE ONLY. Contact photographer for reuse less. A life size Catrina greets visitors to the gift shop at the Museo de Arte Popular, a stellar introduction to folk art from all over Mexico, in the Centro Historico. Tortuga Pirate Hunter. Mexico City A life size Catrina greets. Photo Christine Delsol, Special To SFGate. Image 6 of 9. A Catrina figurine has little worry that smoking will kill her. Courtesy Mexican Museum. A Catrina figurine has little worry that smoking will kill her. Courtesy Mexican Museum. Photo Courtesy Mexican Museum. Image 7 of 9. One of La Catrinas more colorful male counterparts, an undated late 2. Felipe Linares, appears to be sprouting cacti, flowers, butterflies and birds from his papier mache arms and legs. Standing nearly 4 feet tall, it is one of several Untitled Calaca Enramada Skeleton with Flowers pieces. One of La Catrinas more colorful male counterparts, an undated late 2. Felipe Linares, appears to be sprouting cacti, flowers, butterflies and birds from his papier mache arms and legs. Standing nearly 4 feet tall, it is one of several Untitled Calaca Enramada Skeleton with Flowers pieces. Courtesy Mexican Museum less. One of La Catrinas more colorful male counterparts, an undated late 2. Felipe Linares, appears to be sprouting cacti, flowers, butterflies and birds from his papier mache. Photo Courtesy Mexican Museum. Image 8 of 9. A traditional Mexican Catrina wearing a sash that reads in Spanish Miss Pan American stands on display in a park in Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday Oct. The 2. 01. 1 Guadalajara Pan American games are scheduled to begin on Oct. AP PhotoJavier Galeano less. A traditional Mexican Catrina wearing a sash that reads in Spanish Miss Pan American stands on display in a park in Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday Oct. The 2. 01. 1 Guadalajara Pan American games are. Photo Javier Galeano, AP. La Catrina Mexicos grande dame of death. Back to Gallery. In many years of traveling to Mexico Ive often encountered a tall, elegantly attired female skeleton sporting an extravagantly plumed hat in books, in cartoons, on posters, in figures and in the works of some of Mexicos greatest artists. I gradually realized that she is not just one among the proliferation of skulls and skeletons in Mexican art and lore, but a distinct figure named La Catrina. It took San Franciscos Mexican Museum to drive home just how beloved and deeply rooted in the Mexican psyche La Catrina is. For its Oct. 2. 9 fundraiser launching a final push to complete its new and greatly expanded home in the Yerba Buena Arts Center, the museum is holding a La Catrina party. La Catrina Keeping the Spirits Alive will invoke all the traditional Day of the Dead elements, re creating a Mexican village whose paths are lined with marigold strewn altars created by local artists to remember loved ones who have died. Mariachi and salsa tunes will fill the air, with the promise of a spin around the dance floor with the flirtatious, fabulously dressed skeleton. Why Catrina I asked curator David de la Torre. Catrina has come to symbolize not only El Da de los Muertos and the Mexican willingness to laugh at death itself, but originally catrina was an elegant or well dressed woman, so it refers to rich people, de la Torre said. Death brings this neutralizing force everyone is equal in the end. Sometimes people have to be reminded. Born of revolution. La Catrina as we know her originated with Jose Guadalupe Posada, considered the father of Mexican printmaking. Born in 1. 85. 2, he apprenticed to a local printmaker and publisher when he was just 1. Moving to Mexico City in 1. Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, publisher of illustrated broadsides, street gazettes, chapbooks and other popular forms of literature, including songbooks for the popular corridos. He became famous for calaveras skulls or skeletons images that he wielded as political and social satire, poking fun at every imaginable human folly. His influence on Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and other great artists of their generation was incalculable. La Catrina isnt your typical revolutionary babe, but her appearance has everything to do with the Mexican Revolution. Cable Broadband Software. Posadas working life paralleled the reign of dictator Porfirio Daz, whose accomplishments in modernizing and bringing financial stability to Mexico pale against his governments repression, corruption, extravagance and obsession with all things European. Concentration of fantastic wealth in the hands of the privileged few brewed discontent in the hearts of the suffering many, leading to the 1. Diaz in 1. 91. 1 and became the Mexican Revolution. Posadas illustrations brought the stories of the day to the illiterate majority of impoverished Mexicans, both expressing and spreading the prevailing disdain for Porfirios regime. The image now called La Calavera Catrina was published as a broadside in 1. Posadas calaveras La Catrina above all, caricaturizing a high society lady as a skeleton wearing only a fancy French style hat became a sort of satirical obituary for the privileged class. But his Catrina cast a wider net His original name for her, La Calavera Garbancera, used a term that in his day referred to native Mexicans who scorned their culture and tried to pass as European. Lineage begins with the AztecsLa Catrina has been iterated over time, de la Torre said. Its not just Posada and his work in 1. There are layers of history. The image and the woman in death goes back to the ancient Aztec period. Posada took his inspiration from Mictecacihuatl, goddess of death and Lady of Mictlan, the underworld. Also known as Lady of the Dead, Mictecacihuatl was keeper of the bones in the underworld, and she presided over the ancient monthlong Aztec festivals honoring the dead.