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"Catrina is a symbol that represents us internationally — Catrina is our flag as Aguascalientes residents, and I dare say even as Mexicans," said museum cultural promoter José Antonio Padilla Pedroza.
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"Catrina is a symbol that represents us internationally — Catrina is our flag as Aguascalientes residents, and I dare say even as Mexicans," said museum cultural promoter José Antonio Padilla Pedroza.
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La Catrina is one of the most popular of Posada's calaveras.
La Catrina is one of the most popular of Posada's calaveras. 1996
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Miguel Tovar/Associated Press Marchers celebrated in skeletal costumes evocative of the "Catrina" of Mexican art, created to lampoon the aristocratic classes in the early 1900s and now closely tied with the autumn Day of the Dead celebration.
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Without Posada there would be no sexy, stiff-necked "Catrina" figures (upper class ladies of the late nineteenth century) with their equally stiff escorts.
Mexican lithographer Jose Guadalupe Posada: Past and present 2006
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Without Posada there would be no sexy, stiff-necked "Catrina" figures (upper class ladies of the late nineteenth century) with their equally stiff escorts.
Mexican lithographer Jose Guadalupe Posada: Past and present 2006
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Without Posada there would be no sexy, stiff-necked "Catrina" figures (upper class ladies of the late nineteenth century) with their equally stiff escorts.
Mexican lithographer Jose Guadalupe Posada: Past and present 2006
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While watching with a saddened heart the natural disaster that hit the southern USA, some of the scenes seemed so surrealistic that they brought to mind the life-death fascination that exists in the mexican figure of the "Catrina", inmortalized in the caricature drawn by José Guadalupe Posadas.
Katrina or Catrina 2005
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A girl came on the train and she was really really upset and I don't know why but the whole sort of 'Catrina' came to my mind, then the lyrics sprung to mind and then when I looked up what the word 'Catrina' means I found out that 'la Catrina' is part of a Mexican old folk law and it was a character that represented life and death so that's why the lyrics are all about
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Catrina: Skeletons take over the art of Capula, Michoacan by Travis Whitehead
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