The Casta Art Analysis

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Mainly man came to the New World from the Old World. The lack of women from Europe played a large influence in the mixing of races between, the Europeans, Indigenous, Asians, and Africans. All of the mixings created new races and new ways to classify people. When a European mixed with an Indigenous, the offspring was known as a Mestizo. The Casta paintings served as a teaching method of the different combinations that could be created. Cabrera created a great amount of these paintings. In a lot of occasions the paintings depict a Spanish male mating with a women from another mixture (Figure 2 and 3). The relationships between the Europeans, Mestizos, Indigenous, and all of the other mixtures, created a mixture of culture. In Figure 1,

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