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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rufino Tamayo has received more than 597,535 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Rufino Tamayo is the 1,127th most popular painter (down from 962nd in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 121st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Painter.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Rufino Tamayo ranks 1,127 out of 2,023. Before him are Wang Meng, François-Auguste Biard, Emily Carr, Hans Bol, Gerrit Berckheyde, and Ilya Kabakov. After him are Gim Hongdo, Antoine Coypel, María Blanchard, Cornelis Ketel, Pablo Gargallo, and Simon Marmion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Rufino Tamayo ranks 134. Before him are Zhang Daqian, Qu Qiubai, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Leonid Leonov, Nie Rongzhen, and Aleksander Zawadzki. After him are Oscar Zariski, Armand Salacrou, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Carlos Chávez. Among people deceased in 1991, Rufino Tamayo ranks 106. Before him are Étienne Decroux, Franco Maria Malfatti, Metin Oktay, Hitoshi Igarashi, Mario Scelba, and Dead. After him are Andrzej Panufnik, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Nicholas Poppe, Miodrag Bulatović, Abderrahmane Farès, and Billy Vaughn.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rufino Tamayo ranks 138 out of 729. Before him are Kitten Natividad (1948), Demián Bichir (1963), Manuel Uribe (1965), Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Carmen Salinas (1939), and Francisco S. Carvajal (1870). After him are Claudia Sheinbaum (1962), José Vasconcelos (1882), Manuel Ojeda (1940), Antonio Aguilar (1919), Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), and Carlos Chávez (1899).

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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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