For Mexicans Day of The Dead is Not a Morbid Celebration-SliderPhoto

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For a while he worked for La Patria Illustrada, a newspaper edited by Irenio Paz, the grandfather of the noble prize winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz. Posada died in poverty, but the French artist Jean Charlot discovered Posada’s work while visiting Diego Rivera. Since then, copies and imitations of Posada’s artwork have become popular and are associated with the Day of the Dead.