18x24 Posada Canvas Gran Calavera Electrica Skeleton
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Jose Guadalupe Posada "Gran Calavera Electrica" Waterproof Canvas Print- Mount them on foam core, stretch the canvas and/or frame them- no glass needed. Shipping for the first poster is $6 domestic, $12 international and $2 extra per additional print. José Guadalupe Posada Jose Guadalupe Posada: (1852–1913) was a Mexican cartoonist illustrator and artistwhose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and political engagement. Posada was born in Aguascalientes , on February 2, 1852. His education in his early years was drawn from his older brother Cirilo, a country schoolteacher, who taught him reading, writing, as well as drawing. As a young teenager he went to work in the workshop of Trinidad Pedroso, who taught him lithography and engraving . In 1871 , before he was out of his teens, his career began with a job as the political cartoonist for a local newspaper in Aguascalientes, El Jicote ("The Bumblebee"). After 11 issues the newspaper closed, reputedly because one of Posada's cartoons had offended a powerful local politician. [1] He then moved to the nearby city of León, Guanajuato . There he was married to Maria de Jesús Vela on September 20, 1875. In Leon, a former associate of his from Aguascalientes assisted him in starting a printing and commercial illustration
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