Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gran calavera eléctrica

Gran calavera eléctrica

 * Reason:José Guadalupe Posada was a Mexican artist who used themes from indigenous culture to religious and satirical effect. Posada's best known work incorporates skulls (calaveras), such as this "Great electric skull" example in which a skeleton hypnotizes other skulls.  Posada's work is associated with the modern Mexican holiday Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos), which incorporates precolonial traditions.  Restored version of File:Gran_calavera_eléctrica.jpg.

The background texture is presumably due to the printing being done on cloth, combined with the age.
 * Articles this image appears in:José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera, Day of the Dead, Folk art
 * Creator:José Guadalupe Posada


 * Support as nominator -- Durova  297 15:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - a fine example of a notable artist participating in an important aspect of Mexican culture. Oh, by the way, for the record - as I recall, "electric" was being used at that time in a figurative usage to represent what Mesmer called animal magnetism - in other words, hypnosis. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 184 FCs served 18:45, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as per Shoemaker's GerardM (talk) 13:38, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per above. Cool. Sasata (talk) 07:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support I've added it to folk art as it's exactly what popped into my head when I saw it. Really cool. --mikaultalk 00:40, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

--Sedd&sigma;n talk|WikimediaUK 23:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)