Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art Home DŽcor A beautiful piece

A beautiful piece

Antonio gathers all of that history into a moment of celebration

Four geometric panels in terra cotta red and graphite black radiate from a square mouth

ancient miracle icons

With its limbs outstretched in a lively pose and tail curling like a brushstroke

Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art Home DŽcor A beautiful pieceThe next figure in Antonio Alonso's street vendor series brings us the florista, the flower seller whose wooden crate of fresh blooms is one of the most enduring sights in any Mexican market. Here she is rendered as a female tlacuache, dignified and absorbed in her work, cradling a generous bouquet against her chest while a wooden crate of roses waits at her feet. She wears a long red dress patterned with a fine white grid, finished at the hem with an