Ex-Voto (Retablo)
エクスボート（奉納画） / 18th century– / Style / Popular Painting
Mexico's votive paintings: thanks for deliverance painted on tin, scene of peril, holy image and handwritten testimony sharing one small sheet — an earnestness of untrained brushwork that captivated Kahlo and the moderns.
Small tin panels / Scene, image and testimony in three layers / Naive perspective / Records of accident and miracle
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Frida Kahlo's collection / the lettering of testimonies / retablo painters today