Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

Not in a defined space meaning if you look at it, it doesn’t feel like all the pieces are working together
This gives focus to the people in the foreground and the background is just “there”
Figures are painted naturally and realistically without indigenous influence
Figures represent types of people

Painted the earliest series of Casta paintings when they were truly paintings and not prints in New Spain
Casta Paintings- Latin American colonial painting detailing the existing mixed-race population
Commissioned by late Europeans
Revealed to us a number of ratial attitudes
Most of these attitudes were racist

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More European you were, the higher social status you are
The fact that its called “Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo” made it like a+b=c which integrates mathematics into the painting
All clothing aids in racial labeling
There is always a spanish man and an indigenous woman
Woman is a native aristocrat with the man having a powdered wig
Child depicting one of both parents with the “servant boy” carrying it, looking up towards the father noticing the difference in skin tone between the baby and his parents
The parents love their child

Product of the enlightenment because they need to categorize and organise the things around them so they developed a racial hierarchy
This hierarchy is European whites, New World whites, Mestisos, Indigenous people, Mulattos, Zambos, Africans

18th c. Enlightenment casta paintings