THE SILENCE PROJECTED IN THE WORKS OF RUFINO TAMAYO LOOKING AT INFINITY AND MAN CONFRONTING INFINITY

Abstract

The Universe and the space race were a constant in several of the works by the Oaxacan painter Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991). Some of these, project silence from a metaphor -as Charles Peirce puts it-. In this article are analyzed Looking at infinity (1932) and Man confronting infinity (1967), as examples of the approach. The research methodology included reading articles, books and newspapers, conducting interviews with the painter's relatives and an artist, and the observing and interpreting the artistic works relating them to the historical moment and the personal life of the author. Proving that silence projected as a metaphor is present in some works of Tamayo's cosmic art -topic that historians and art critics have not studied in depth- will allow a new reading of his aesthetics