{"id":26783,"date":"2025-06-09T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/interventions\/plants-in-mexican-art\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:52:42","slug":"plants-in-mexican-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/plantae-and-fauna\/plants-in-mexican-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants in Mexican Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Armando Maravilla and Felipe Mac\u00edas offer a journey through the relationship between vegetation, art, and cultural identity, highlighting the aesthetic, symbolic, and ecological value of plants in the Mexican landscape in their article <\/span><\/i><b><i>Plants in Mexican Art.<\/i><\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has always been a close relationship between art and vegetation, from the earliest graphic representations of humanity to the work of renowned artists who have portrayed plants as an essential part of the country\u2019s cultural identity. One of the key figures in this connection is Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Velasco, who, in his paintings, <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">depicts ash trees, willows, and poplars<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, perfectly capturing the natural landscape of pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Mexico. His work reflects the temporal cycles of the Valley of Mexico: the dry and rainy seasons. It is precisely during the dry season that the ash trees reach their greatest splendor, displaying their flowers and releasing their winged fruits, which gently fall over the city.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has always been a close relationship between art and vegetation, from the earliest graphic representations of humanity to the work of renowned artists who have portrayed plants as an essential part of the country\u2019s cultural identity.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_26769\" style=\"width: 1963px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1953\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-scaled.png 1953w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-781x1024.png 781w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-768x1007.png 768w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-1172x1536.png 1172w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-1562x2048.png 1562w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-300x393.png 300w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FRESNO-600x786.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1953px) 100vw, 1953px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA \/ BIBLIOGRAPHY:<br \/>Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO). n.d. Fraxinus uhdei (Wenz.) Lingelsh. Oleaceae. http:\/\/www.conabio.gob.mx\/conocimiento\/info_especies\/arboles\/doctos\/53-oleac1m.pdf.<br \/>Comisi\u00f3n Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR). n.d. Fraxinus uhdei. http:\/\/www.conafor.gob.mx:8080\/documentos\/docs\/13\/922Fraxinus%20uhdei.pdf.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26775\" style=\"width: 1967px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26775\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1957\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-scaled.png 1957w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-783x1024.png 783w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-768x1005.png 768w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-1174x1536.png 1174w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-1566x2048.png 1566w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-300x392.png 300w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ZOAPOXTLE-1-600x785.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1957px) 100vw, 1957px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA \/ BIBLIOGRAPHY:<br \/>Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO). \u201cMontanoa tomentosa Cerv.\u201d Malezas de M\u00e9xico. http:\/\/www.conabio.gob.mx\/malezasdemexico\/asteraceae\/montanoa-tomentosa\/fichas\/ficha.htm.<br \/>GBIF Secretariat. \u201cMontanoa tomentosa Cerv.\u201d GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/es\/species\/5406080.<br \/>Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico. Zoapatle. Atlas de las Plantas de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana. http:\/\/medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx\/apmtm\/termino.php?l=3&amp;t=zoapatle.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26777\" style=\"width: 1966px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1956\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-scaled.png 1956w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-782x1024.png 782w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-768x1005.png 768w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-1173x1536.png 1173w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-1565x2048.png 1565w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-300x393.png 300w, https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QUINTONIL-600x785.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1956px) 100vw, 1956px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO). \u201cAmaranthus hybridus L.\u201d http:\/\/www.conabio.gob.mx\/malezasdemexico\/amaranthaceae\/amaranthus-hybridus\/fichas\/ficha.htm.<br \/>Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM), Facultad de Medicina. \u201cQuelite.\u201d Atlas de las Plantas de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana. http:\/\/www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx\/apmtm\/termino.php?l=3&amp;t=quelite.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armando Maravilla and Felipe Mac\u00edas offer a journey through the relationship between vegetation, art, and cultural identity, highlighting the aesthetic, symbolic, and ecological value of plants in the Mexican landscape in their article Plants in Mexican Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":26782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-files","category-plantae-and-fauna"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}