Virgin of Guadalupe, we entrust you our son Tereso who is going to the capital to work as an artist, he says.

Sosimo and Julia Montes

Rufiano Tamarzo, known as Warhol of Bondojito, thanks all these critics who said awesome things about my vanguard art which neither I understand—Raquel Ti-Bone, Avellana Lester, Carloss Bla-bla Nice gay, O. M. Dadiva and Gerardo Annoyed.

Fidelia Tecanguey had a dream in which the painter Frida inspired her to paint. She started painted since then. She entrusted herself to Saint Pancras whom she brings the present retablo thanking him for she even sold some painting.

Puebla, 1947

I thank Saint Jude Thaddeus, with the present exvoto, for the great talent of the painter Diego Rivera. I admire his work very much but my favorite is his mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central” which I like for its colors and beauty.

Mexico City

I dedicate this exvoto to Saint James the Apostle for the innovative work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. His works came into prominence in the history of art as he created the cubism and influenced all aspects of art in 20th century.

Mexico

I admire the paintings of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. I thank Saint Rita with this exvoto because when I travelled to Mexico I visited the Modern Art museum to contemplate one of my favorite works—her self-portrait called “The Two Fridas”.

Suffering Frida, you don’t suffer anymore. I beg you, Divine Baby Jesus, make her rest in peace so she would stop appearing in her studio.

A seamstress Domitila Betansos brings this retablo to the Virgin of the Solitude giving her thanks because she met the painter Frida who gave her a great present—a sewing machine that she lacked so much.

Puebla, 1939

I dedicate this exvoto to the great talent of the French painter Claude Monet. I admire his beautiful works full of color like his painting “Woman with a Parasol” and many other that made him the most important figure of the Impressionism and one of the best painters of 19th–20th centuries.

Mexico

I dedicate the present exvoto to Saint Jude Thaddeus for the great talent of the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. His vision of social problems and his particular style of capturing the working masses, workers and peasants made him, along with Rivera and Orozco, a distinguished figure of the muralism.

Silvino Rivera thanks Saint Pancras with this retablo because his friends Diego and Frida don’t forget about him and visit him in his pulqueria-bar, and he finds them very glad.

Puebla, 1945

Gaudensia Sanchez brings this retablo to the Holy Child of Atocha thanking him because her mistress, the painter Frida, gave her her device to play her favorite music which she desired so much.

Mexico, 1942

Frida’s ghost keeps appearing in her workshop. It go on painting and partying. Virgin of Guadalupe, let her rest in peace. The dead into the pits, the living to enjoy.