Rufino Tamayo, Dog Howling at the Moon

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[@carlberg7503]

Stunning painting I did not know. Thanks for introducing it to me, and thanks for the brilliant analysis that consummately blends aesthetic analysis and history, showing how a visual image comments on the world. In this specific case, on war. Your analysis could not come at a better time when we see the horrors of war every day on the news.

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[@SmittenKitten.]

There's a feeling of restrained fury in the dog.

[@sherryzimmerman9220]

“The artist desires ‘AMALGAMATION’ of two worlds as the docent expressed……for me it reads the sense of a world gone mad in 1942…..with the moon continuing in its natural cycle day in and day out…….whether or not….this is great sharing in social media today….

[@Sasha0927]

I love the way Dr. Ramos pronounced the name of the painting. 🔥 I also loved the Colima dog figure - very cute! This piece, though... lol. I can't get over the thick vein (or loose skin) going down the dog's body... In combination with those pupil-less eyes, it kinda freaks me out a little. "Guernica" is another crazy piece. I can see how it would've inspired this one. Very interesting as always. ❤

[@barrymoore4470]

The ancient Colima clay figures, especially the little pot-bellied dogs, are delightful.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

To me the depiction of the dog’s neck suggests anguish, just as expressed in Guernica. We don’t know how long the dog has been alone or even abandoned, when s/he was last fed…there’s a lot of ambiguity and heartache in that simple painting.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

To me the neck suggests anguish. We dint know how the long the dog has been alone or entirely abandoned, nor when s/he last ate. Time there is a great of anguish in that painting, just as in Guernica. Because it is so deceptively simple, I find more powerful than the masterpiece that is Guernica.

[@willow1230]

Any relation to Miró’s “Dog Barking at the Moon”? painted about 20 years earlier

[@barrymoore4470]

I also was reminded of that earlier painting when seeing this title and subject.

[@artistmajor]

I see the dog as in a kind of triumphant "carpe diem" expression. The dog seems to have eaten all of the meat off the bones in the bowl as well as the ground; and howling as if to say, "it is finished!." This, to me, alluded to Christ being lifted up on the cross and looking up saying, "it is finished!" before drawing His last breath. Then, as the moon suggests, it went dark for some hours after His death.

[@random22026]

2:16 2:18 2:21 5:54 The moon in eclipse; the bare bones of death. Visited an exhibition of Tamayo's paintings in East Los Angeles in the late '70s/early '80s, with my sibling. Tamayo is an amazing artist. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

[@guest_informant]

Painted in the middle of a World War II, at a time when no-one knew what the outcome would be.

[@TheSarah730]

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