Dia de los Muertos
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Dia de los MuertosCreated and presented by Ms. Steinmetz
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Dia de los Muertos
November 2nd • Day of the Dead is a holiday (or festival) when family members who have died are remembered. In Mexico, this festival is considered to be the most important holiday of the year.
• It is a period full of life, happiness, color, food, family, and fun.
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• Outdoor markets sell many symbolic goods, such as special breads, flowers, pottery, baskets, candles, paper puppets, candy skulls, etc. The main symbols of this holiday are skulls and skeletons.
Marigolds-"flower of the dead” believed to attract the souls and draw them back.
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Sugar Skulls
• Mexico, abundant in sugar production and too poor to buy fancy imported European church decorations, learned quickly from the friars how to make sugar art for their religious festivals. Sugar skulls represent a departed soul and honor the return of a particular spirit.
• Sugar skulls are labor intensive and made in very small batches in the homes of sugar skull makers. These wonderful artisans are disappearing as fabricated and imported candy skulls take their place.
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Why Skulls?
The skull is about the most important symbol in Mexican Day of the Dead Culture, because it symbolizes the soul. The idea is that just as the bones remain after the flesh has been rotted away, the soul remains after the
body is discarded.
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What are some characteristics of these
designs?
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Pattern
Line and Shape
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Vibrant Colors
Black outlines
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Symbols
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Sugar Skull Clay Relief
• Relief = means to RAISE
• Skulls should include several elements that are raised above (3D) the background plan.
• Painted designs are in addition to these areas.
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Sources of Inspiration
• Aztec Patterns• Ed Hardy Designs • Henna • Intricate Line
Designs• Symbols of personal
importance (avoid clichés!)
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Oil Pastel ResistDay of the Dead Skulls
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Oil Pastel/Watercolor Resist
• The word resist is used to describe the action in which two materials or media repel each other either chemically or physically. In this art piece we are using oil and water based paint to resist each other and repel.
• This mixed media work is using the black paint to show a contrast between the shapes of oil pastel and gives the illusion of a stained glass window.