 This is precisely the decade in which Izquierdo painted her series of Viernes de Dolores altars.Early on, Izquierdo established herself as a painter of still lifes, altars, circus scenes, and portraits of women.Making it a point to tie her art with Mexican popular tradition, Izquierdo pushed back from what many of her peers at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (Academy of Fine Arts) were doing.