Brusca Sangre [2.]

 Posted by at 6:43 pm  Atelier
Dec 142009
 

POSADA Don Quijote 
José-Guadalupe Posada, 1852-1913. Engraving, relief printed, and letterpress, composition: 22 1/16 x 13 7/16" (56 x 34.2 cm); sheet: 23 9/16 x 16" (59.8 x 40.7 cm). Publisher and printer: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico City. Edition: Unlimited (not signed).

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par le gigante calavera (This Is about Don Quixote the First, the Unequalled Giant Skull) – begins another of Posada’s famous engravings …scattering all before him…

 

…And every now and then, catching one or other calavera full in the mouth with his metal tipped lance, so that, for an instant – brusca sangre (sudden blood) - it is as if the skull is announcing himself or herself through the steel, and able thereby to give voice to the whole unfolding tableau.