Pedro Linares, a master “cartonero” or paper craft sculptor from Mexico City, was inspired by a dream to create these fantastic animals and to name them “Alebrijes”. These multicolored animals where when adapted to wood by Manuel Jimenez, from Oaxaca, after seeing them at a workshop that Linares attended. They have become a symbol of Mexican Art and popular culture.
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