Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art Home DŽcor compact and warm

compact and warm

a bold and confident choice that stands out from the bright colors typically seen in Oaxacan art

it has the floppy ears of a hound and a tail held high with confidence

He works alongside his wife Mayte Calvo in San Martín Tilcajete

With its limbs outstretched in a lively pose and tail curling like a brushstroke

Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art Home DŽcor compact and warmThe next figure in Antonio Alonso's street vendor series brings us the florista, the flower seller whose wooden crate of fresh blooms is one of the most enduring sights in any Mexican market. Here she is rendered as a female tlacuache, dignified and absorbed in her work, cradling a generous bouquet against her chest while a wooden crate of roses waits at her feet. She wears a long red dress patterned with a fine white grid, finished at the hem with an