Jose Guadeloupe Posada was a Mexican cartoonist and printmaker born in 1852 who was known for his caricatures of people and skeletons. As a teenager, Posada worked for a newspaper company in Aguascalientes, Mexico where he began his career as a cartoonist. His cartoonist style utilized vigorous lines, contrasts, and imagery of violence. Later in life, Posada was banned from his hometown for offending a local leader and moved to Mexico City where he created his most famous work, Calavera de las Muertas in 1910.

1. Jose Guadeloupe
Posada
By: Lorenzo Ruiz

2. Vital Statistics:
• Birth:1852
• Death:1913
• Nationality:Mexican
• Gender:Male

3. Key Personal Events
• When Posada was a teen he worked for a
newspaper company in his town
Aguascalientes Mexico, as a cartoonist.
• Being a cartoonist formed Posada’s style of
art because he normally draws his people
and skeletons as caricatures.
• Posada was band from his home town
because of offending the leader of the
town. So he moved to Mexico City and did
Dea de Las Muertas.

4. Stylistic Traits
• Imagery of violence: This is shown in a lot
of his work for example Calavera from
Oaxaca- painted in 1910.

5. Stylistic Traits
• Caricature: This isn’t in all of his work but
in some such as Calavera Revolucionaria-
painted in 1910.

6. Stylistic Traits
• Vigorous lines and contrasts: He uses a lot
of contrasts of black on white, like in the
painting La Turantula- painted in 1893.