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- Luis_de_Mena abstract "Luis de Mena was a Mexican artist who lived and worked predominantly in the middle of the eighteenth century. The majority of his work falls into a genre of art practiced almost exclusively in colonial Mexico called casta painting. His most famous painting is called “Casta scenes,” a single-canvas work from 1750 which portrays not only a variety of New Spain’s castas but also, and perhaps uniquely, features the Virgin of Guadalupe. This painting also shares more common features with others of its kind, including fruits native to Mexico and idealized scenes of daily life in the top and bottom panels. His paintings are, as a whole, more idealistic, suggesting he belonged to a school of art which emphasized the exotic and paradisiacal elements of New Spain. This approach to casta painting dominated the genre until the Bourbon Reforms of the 1760s.Life and BackgroundUnfortunately, very few details about de Mena’s life were recorded. His birthplace and date, as well as his own social standing and any specific art school or academy to which he may have belonged to, remain unknown. However, it might be reasonable to speculate that he was a creole or was at least considered legally white due to the strong element of creole pride which was often a hallmark of the genre prior to the 1760s. De Mena may also have been a student of, or inspired by, Miguel Cabrera, one of the most famous casta painters. Cabrera had once defended the divinity of the Virgin of Guadalupe, who appears in de Mena’s work, and was also a contemporary of de Mena.References".
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- Luis_de_Mena subject Category:Colonial_Mexico.
- Luis_de_Mena subject Category:Latin_American_caste_system.
- Luis_de_Mena subject Category:New_Spain.
- Luis_de_Mena subject Category:Race_in_Latin_America.
- Luis_de_Mena comment "Luis de Mena was a Mexican artist who lived and worked predominantly in the middle of the eighteenth century. The majority of his work falls into a genre of art practiced almost exclusively in colonial Mexico called casta painting. His most famous painting is called “Casta scenes,” a single-canvas work from 1750 which portrays not only a variety of New Spain’s castas but also, and perhaps uniquely, features the Virgin of Guadalupe.".
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