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Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991

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Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rufino Tamayo is the 1,094th most popular painter (up from 1,127th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 138th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Rufino Tamayo ranks 1,094 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Louis Forain, Bartolomeo Veneto, Gustaaf Wappers, Nasreddine Dinet, Félix Bracquemond, and Anni Albers. After him are Eugène Jansson, Iaia, Josef Kriehuber, Władysław Podkowiński, María Blanchard, and Francesco Zuccarelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Rufino Tamayo ranks 138. Before him are Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Justas Paleckis, Lonnie Johnson, Aleksander Zawadzki, Carlos Chávez, and Anni Albers. After him are Susannah Mushatt Jones, Jeralean Talley, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Qu Qiubai, Alexander Tcherepnin, and Aleksander Klumberg. Among people deceased in 1991, Rufino Tamayo ranks 106. Before him are Otl Aicher, Zino Francescatti, Franco Maria Malfatti, Mario Scelba, Jack Crawford, and Heidi Brühl. After him are Étienne Decroux, Abderrahmane Farès, Miodrag Bulatović, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Metin Oktay, and Hitoshi Igarashi.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rufino Tamayo ranks 136 out of 729. Before him are Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1877), Manuel González Flores (1833), Carlos Chávez (1899), Armando Manzanero (1935), and Javier Hernández (1988). After him are Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), Francisco León de la Barra (1863), Juan Álvarez (1790), Kitten Natividad (1948), Huitzilihuitl (1379), and Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967).

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Among PAINTERS In Mexico

Among painters born in Mexico, Rufino Tamayo ranks 5. Before him are Frida Kahlo (1907), Diego Rivera (1886), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), and José Clemente Orozco (1883). After him are Juan O'Gorman (1905), Emmanuel Lubezki (1964), Francisco Toledo (1940), and Ignacio Ortiz (1934).

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