Originally called La Calavera Garbancera
The history of La Catrina begins during the governments of Benito Juárez, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and Porfirio Díaz. During these periods, he began to popularize texts that criticized both the general situation of the country and that of the privileged classes. These were the skulls dressed in gala clothes, drinking pulque, mounted on horseback, at high society parties or in a neighborhood. Everything to portray misery, political errors, hypocrisy.
Finished drawing
Part of the process
Nowadays, the catrina, being a popular invention, has become a popular artifact and has left the limits of the canvas or the engraving to be part of the Mexican living culture, of its uses and customs.
Part of "the Mexican" and its position in the face of death. He observes it, approaches it, makes it part of his surroundings, of his art and is a craft that symbolizes miscegenation. It has become crafts that highlights the formal and spiritual wealth of the country.
