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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 580,757 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Rufino Tamayo is the 963rd most popular painter (up from 979th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Mexico (up from 126th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Rufino Tamayo ranks 963 out of 1,421Before him are Odd Nerdrum, Isaac van Ostade, Zao Wou-Ki, Bartolomeo Montagna, Louise Catherine Breslau, and January Suchodolski. After him are Willem Drost, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Varvara Stepanova, Abraham Mignon, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, and Barbara Kruger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Rufino Tamayo ranks 111Before him are Konstantinos Tsatsos, Maria Yudina, Café Filho, Lovro von Matačić, Anni Albers, and Aleksander Klumberg. After him are Robert Casadesus, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Justas Paleckis, Gustav Ucicky, Leonid Leonov, and Paul Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1991, Rufino Tamayo ranks 90Before him are Étienne Decroux, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Jean Bruller, Alex North, Vasko Popa, and Kevin Peter Hall. After him are Giacomo Manzù, Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, Yasushi Inoue, Otl Aicher, and Metin Oktay.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rufino Tamayo ranks 121 out of 585Before him are Nicolás Bravo (1786), Edith González (1964), Laura Harring (1964), Mariano Arista (1802), Jacqueline Andere (1938), and Fernando Colunga (1966). After him are Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1877), Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1889), Tenoch (1299), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Francisco León de la Barra (1863), and Ignacio Allende (1769).

Among PAINTERS In Mexico

Among painters born in Mexico, Rufino Tamayo ranks 5Before 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), and Francisco Toledo (1940).