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Arte Para El Alma: Santos, Retablos, Altars, and Angels by New Mexico Folk-Artist Armando Lopez
Description
folk art tradition of fashioning figures out of corn husks, twigs, reeds, and grass. These figures were often used as toys to occupy children while their elders tended the crops.
When Armando was a child, his mother told him the story of a doll made by her father when she was a girl. She said the doll was so infused with a magical human likeness that the eyes (made from marbles) seemed to follow all that went on around it.
The story became etched in Armando's young mind, and at age four he began making dolls with the notion of instilling in them the same magical qualities as the doll in the story.
Contact
- Markman, Scott
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- Abiquiu NM
- US 87510
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- (505) 685-4585
