Sentences with word «casta»

The artist's initial inspiration for these works comes from casta painting, a seventeenth - and eighteenth - century genre characteristic of New Spain and particularly prevalent in colonial Mexico.

Sapientia verecunda et pudens, they said, casta et irreprehensa.

Not to judge from the reaction of what Pablo Iglesias, the Podemos leader, terms «la casta», the caste — the political class whose sense of entitlement and undisguised condescension betrays its conviction that its members — and its members alone — have the right to pull the levers of power.

Visually, The Garden of Delights alludes to abstraction, and conceptually it engages with the late seventeenth and eighteenth century casta paintings commissioned by Spanish officials in Spain's New World colonies in the Americas that depicted the intermingling of three major races.

It was inspired by 17th - and 18th - century Spanish and Portuguese casta paintings, which ranked mixed - race people according to parentage and relative lightness of skin.

This allowed the Collectors Committee to direct their funds towards Ai Weiwei's Untitled (Divine Proportion)(2006), the Head of a Buddha from 1000 - 1050 AD Japan, Craig Kauffman's Untitled (1969), and three Spanish casta paintings by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (1760).

• Three casta paintings from a series by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, circa 1760, representing the process of racial mixing among Indians, Spaniards, and Africans in colonial Mexico: VII.

Using more than one hundred categories of racial intermixing, the casta system classified a broad spectrum of combinations of white, black, Indian and mixed - race heritage.

The casta system developed by colonial Spaniards helped establish and perpetuate a rigid hierarchical taxonomy based on notions of purity associated with whiteness.

In the post-Conquest period, casta paintings sought to document the varieties of interracial mixing in the New World in an attempt to classify and frame racial diversity and hybridity through a complex casta system.

[UPDATE 4/19/11: LACMA originally cited the price for the three «casta» paintings as $ 570,500, which was noted in a previous version of this post; the correct price is noted above.]

The portraits are based on the «casta» paintings of colonial Spaniards in Mexico who devised their own complex taxonomy of colour and racial diversity