Reyna Pina: Magnificent Monkey OaxacaThis magnificent monkey carving by Oaxaca artist Reyna Pina is full of motion and personality, captured in a low, prowling stance with one hand lifted as if its mid step through the canopy. The painting is superb, warm, earthy browns are layered with flowing, woodgrain like lines that ripple across the body. The face is stunning: a bright coral orange mask covered in delicate spiral lines, with wide blue eyes that give the expression an alert,

In pre-Columbian Mexico

Alfredo Fuentes’ adorable little fawn steps forward confidently

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but through the energies they unite

brought to the Americas after the conquest

Antonio Alonso is one of Oaxaca's rising masters of cartonería

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finished at the hem with an orange band scattered in small yellow flowers

almost like a living piece of folk art illustration on clay

The mini Jaguar is intricately carved and beautifully painted

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and printed newsprint that crowned Antonio's Xolo emperor