Rufino tamayo parents as teachers
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“We let teachers be teaching specialists, my goal is not to get in the way.” Acero-Tamayo Principal Matthew Katz Supports Excellent Teaching
“What distinguishes a high performing school is the quality of the teachers and what’s going on in the classroom. The real success happens with students and teachers,” says Principal Matthew Katz of Acero–Rufino Tamayo. Tamayo is one of the highest performing elementary schools in Chicago, serving students on the city’s Southwest side. Like the charter public schools recently featured in INCS’ “Beat the Odds” brief, Principal Katz owes Tamayo’s success to a strong adult culture. “Our school is a place where teachers feel valued from the inside out and have the freedom to innovate.”
At Tamayo, senior leadership is intensely focused on supporting teachers without micromanaging what happens in the classroom. Guided by shared frameworks for instruction and planning, teachers have a lot of autonomy over curriculum choice and can design many aspect
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Rufino Tamayo
Demi poisson/Halved Fish
An ordinary meal of fish, offered with lemons for their citrus seasoning, takes on significance and dream-like mystery in this lithographic print by Rufino Tamayo, an artist also known for his murals and paintings. The filleted flounder and nine lemon slices are depicted directly, with no platter or plate serving as a background or to orient perspective. Tamayo employed simple geometric shapes that not only evoked traditional folk motifs of his Mexican culture but also enabled him to experiment with the limits and possibilities of the picture plane. The flat struktur of the fish is an ideal subject for his Modernist attention to the flat print surface and is as well a subject that is related to daily life, with its celebrations and sacraments.
After Tamayo drew his image on a limestone block with a soft lithographic crayon, thin veils of apelsinfärg, black, white, and yellow inks were applied and printed successively onto the paper in tydlig
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Rufino Tamayo &#;Dos personajes atacados por perros
December 27,
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Mixograph on handmade paper, ed. 18/75
x 97 inches
A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo&#;s father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually &#;mestizo&#; &#; of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. He began painting at age Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business.
In , he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated