So this is my final drawing in Mexico. Appropriately a Mexican topic. Having a family that is involved in rodeo in Canada I was very excited to go to my first Charro.
The charreada itself consists of a number of scoring events staged in a particular order—nine for the men and one for the women. Two or more teams, called asociaciones, compete against each other. Teams can compete to become state, regional, and national champions. The competitors are judged by both style and execution. Unlike rodeos, most charreadas do not award money to the winners as charreadas are considered an amateur sport, not professional. Under Mexican laws it would be illegal to receive a monetary reward for participating in a charreada. At times there are such prizes as saddles or horse trailers.
Colas en el Lienzo, or Coleadero (Steer Tailing) similar to bull dogging except that the rider does not dismount; the charro rides alongside the left side of the bull, wraps its tail around his right leg, and tries to bring the bull down in a roll as he rides past it. Points are given for technique, time, and roll of the bull.
I have been wanting to attempt this drawing for sometime and it is only because I am drawing on more than one piece of paper that this has become possible.
Pastel painting size 60x78 cm unframed For sale contact artist.
I'm going to have start buying some art from you. I know Mike would like your artistic syle as well.
ReplyDeleteI really like this one Barbara. A great finishing piece to a prolific winter in Mexico. I love the colors and the vibrancy of this pastel. Excellent!
ReplyDeleteI like the multiple images.
ReplyDeleteIs that the same nude male?
The charro is a lovely piece. It should sell.
I also liked the sleek woman. The portrait has a lot of expression.
You are really doing good.
Edwin
Dear Ms. Warren:
ReplyDeleteYour considerable artistic talent aside, I question your ethics regarding animal welfare. Since you love to paint pets, I find it astounding that you would choose to promote the inherent abuses of charreada and/or rodeo.
Are you aware that steer tailing ("coleadero") was banned in Nebraska back in 2008, along with "manganas" (horse tripping, another standard charreada event)? I myself was the sponsor of the first bill to outlaw manganas in California, in 1993/94. Eight other states have since followed suit.
I had my Alameda County Board of Supervisors pass an ordinance banning both steer tailing and horse tripping back in 1993; adjoining Contra Costa County did likewise shortly thereafter.
I'd suggest you GOOGLE "coleadero"--in July of this year, 11 steers were severely injured at the Jefferson Co. Fairgrounds (near Denver): broken pelvis, broken leg (both euthanized), plus seven steers who had the flesh and skin stripped off their tails ("de-gloving," it's called). Some "sport"!
Simple tradition justifies nothing. I would urge you to study more carefully what happens to the hapless animals in these events, and then stop promoting this brutality.
As the late Cesar Chavez wrote to me in 1990:
"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cockfighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." Words to live by....
Kind regards,
Eric Mills, coordinator
ACTION FOR ANIMALS
Oakland
afa@mcn.org