Catrina "Elegant lady" paper sculpture-Movie COCO- Day of the dead art - order Paper Mache - Handcraft

order "Catrina" or "Calavera Garbancera"; This representative figure of the Day of the Dead was created by José Guadalupe Posadas to criticize the opulence of the upper classes of Mexico during the Porfiriato era.

Currently the "Catrina" has become part of the Mexican living culture and the representation that in death we are all equal.

Catrina "Elegant Lady" was made with the sculptural technique called "cartoneria", a popular Mexican art, where the molding of the piece is done only with paper and a special glue called "engrudo", without molds, only with the skill of the artisan that makes it, and that once dry it hardens.
Decorated with acrylic paints and a gloss varnish finish that protects the piece from dust