Joaquín Clausell 🎨🖌🖼

Joaquín Clausell, Mexico’s greatest Impressionist painter, led one of art history’s most unlikely double lives — firebrand lawyer and lyrical landscape artist. Born in Campeche in 1866, self-taught and often penniless, he brought Impressionism home from Paris after encounters with Monet and Pissarro, transforming Mexico’s canals, forests, and coastlines into shimmering colour. Discover his turbulent biography, a critical analysis of his three major works — now housed at MUNAL in Mexico City — and his lasting legacy alongside Diego Rivera and Dr. Atl. Continue reading Joaquín Clausell 🎨🖌🖼

Echeveria agavoides 🌱🌵🇪🇸

Las echeverias son un gran grupo de más de 150 especies de suculentas de flores pequeñas, originarias de América Central, caracterizadas por rosetas de hojas y racimos de rosetas. El nombre de esta variedad, agavoides, proviene de su similitud con los agaves más grandes, de los que es una versión mucho más pequeña. sus hojas son pulposas y con un brillo natural, por lo que … Continue reading Echeveria agavoides 🌱🌵🇪🇸

Echeveria pulidonis 🌱🌵🌱

This is one of the plants I bought from a local nursery without knowing its botanical name nor its specific needs. It turned out to be an Echeveria pulidonis. Echeverias are a large group of more than 150 species of small flowering succulents, originally from Central America, characterised by rosettes of leaves and clusters of rosettes. The variety name comes from a common male name in Spanish, … Continue reading Echeveria pulidonis 🌱🌵🌱