Chupicuaro Birds
• Chupicuaro Collages
• Chupicuaro Constructions
• Chupicuaro Drawings
• Chupicuaro Veracruz
• Chupicuaro Early
• Chupicuaro Late
• Chupicuaro Middle

The digital artwork, "Chupicuaro Family Group in Moonlight", was created by Mario Castillo to illustrate the type of Mesoamerican art style which prompted him to name a whole body of work after it. The name Chupicuaro comes from a town in southeastern Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico. These figurines with slanting eyes are typical of this ancient Mexican culture which flourished in Pre-Conquest times around the rivers of this region.

Archeologists have concluded that this society worshipped womanhood and fertility since most of their art pieces pay tribute to this subject. Much of this art has been found in tombs. It is unknown how many of their ancient burial sites have been covered by the Solis Dam along the Lerma River, just northeast of the city of Acambaro, Guanajuato, but the number is considered to be significant since this was the Chupicuaro culture's territory.

To see three excellent examples of Chupicuaro clay figurines link to the following:

• College of the Sequoias
• The Mexican Museum
• Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

Although the diagonal eyes and distorted faces Mario Castillo did in the late 1960's stemmed from a Cubist and Francis Bacon influence, Castillo did not connect these to the Chupicuaro culture until 1983. Since then he continues to be involved with all of these different "Chupi" subdivisions.

To view distorted Cubistic faces related to African Sculpture go to:

• Kmt Space Cubism

To see a distorted "Francis Bacon" face please visit:

• Kainos Philosophical Magazine

To view examples of Castillo's distorted faces please link to:

• Face from September 11
• Tsunami Panic
• Tsunami Agony