![]() An armature is the skeleton of your sculpture.Visual Rhythm is created by repeating the elements of art.Each piece is hand-sanded and painted in bright and exciting motifs (patterns).VIDEO: Bless the Beasts: Animal Woodcarvings from Oaxaca.The women paint them using very tiny paint brushes and sometimes-organic material such a pine needles.Artists use machetes for the initial cuts to form the basic size & shape of the animal, then move to smaller tools (knives & chisels) to refine the shape.Traditionally the men carve the forms (using subtractive sculpting techniques).The “copalillo” is a tree that grows in warm regions of Oaxaca.Each of the wooden sculptures are hand-carved from the wood of the Copal (or Copillo) tree.The wood carving techniques and artistic capacity of the Zapotec Indians are legendary, honed over hundreds of generations.Oaxacan painted wood carvings are created by the Zapotec Indians who live in the Oaxaca Valley.This adaptation was pioneered by Arrazola native Manuel Jiménez. The Oaxaca valley area already had a history of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, and Linares’ designs were adapted to the carving of a local wood called copal. Linares was originally from San Antonio Arrazola, Oaxaca, and on family visits, demonstrated his designs there.After dreaming the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier mache. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. ![]()
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