Miguel Cabrera is a well known painter from the 18th century who painted From Spaniard and Mulatta, Morisca in 1763. This painting is from the caste series Miguel Cabrera did during his life in the Colonial Spanish Americas (Arana). A caste series is a set of sixteen paintings that trace racial mixing. In the painting, a family of a Spanish man and a Mulatta women are depicted with their children whom contain attributes of both of their parents. This painting of a multicultural family shows much of the social, economic, political, and historical time period of Latin America. The European explorations begin the era of the Colonial Latin Americas. In 1492 Christopher Columbus arrived to the Americas and it is colonized. From that moment on, …show more content…
It is an era that changes the way people think opening skepticism, idealism, and common-sense realism (May). Overtime before the enlightenment, a caste system developes of all the people that come to America. The people with the fairest skin color are at the top of this hierarchy while darker colored people are at the bottom. Much of the art produced during the Colonial Latin America is from this wide variety of peoples backgrounds (Bailey). From Spaniard and Mulatta, Morisca depicts a section of the caste system, racial mixing, and the economic and political time period of the Colonial Spanish Americas. …show more content…
The Mulatta mom is wearing a dress with a floral printing on the bottom and what seems to be a blue and white shirt under a brown shawl.that is cut open near the top. The colors blue a white usually have a meaning of peace and purity, but since she covers them up this means that she is not really bringing peace into the family nor that she is pure. The two avocados on the table confirm this impurity of not being whole, the avocado is cut in half and has no seed just like herself. This avocado also connects back to the Enlightenment because the Europeans are exploring new things and the avocado is originated in Mexico and new to the Europeans. All of this connects together because the Europeans eat the avocado for curiosity, which means they also take away purity of the