Exhibition Browse: Mexican Modernism: Revolution and Reckoning
Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 6
Like many of his Mexican contemporaries in the early 1940s, Mérida embraced his ancient, indigenous roots through modern cultural expressions. The lithographs combine Abstract Expressionist gesture influenced by European artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró with interpretations of linear drawings found in Mayan murals.
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Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 8
Like many of his Mexican contemporaries in the early 1940s, Mérida embraced his ancient, indigenous roots through modern cultural expressions. The lithographs combine Abstract Expressionist gesture influenced by European artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró with interpretations of linear drawings found in Mayan murals.
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Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 9
This energetic, colorful image with abstracted forms is part of a series of ten lithographs that illustrate the ancient Mayan creation story. Created by Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida, the lithographs accompany selections from the Popol-Vuh meaning “Book of the Community” in the K’iche’ language. The story includes the dangerous trials and feats of the hero twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué in the underworld and recounts how they prepared the way for the planting of maize and for human beings to live on earth.
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Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 10
Like many of his Mexican contemporaries in the early 1940s, Mérida embraced his ancient, indigenous roots through modern cultural expressions. The lithographs combine Abstract Expressionist gesture influenced by European artists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miró with interpretations of linear drawings found in Mayan murals.
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Desolacion [Desolation]
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