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- NAME: José Guadalupe Posada
- OCCUPATION: Illustrator
- BIRTH DATE: February 02, 1851
- DEATH DATE: January 20, 1913
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Aguascalientes, Mexico
- PLACE OF DEATH: Mexico City, Mexico
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José Guadalupe Posada was a printmaker whose works, often expressionistic in content and style, were influential in the development of 20th-century Mexican art.
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José Guadalupe Posada was born February 2, 1851 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. As a child he worked as a farm laborer and in a pottery factory. He taught school for a short time and then began to draw. Gradually he was attracted to printmaking; he became a kind of pictorial journalist with the publication of thousands of broadside illustrations and popular book and song covers.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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