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...Mexico stumbled for a while, then swallowed up the onslaught of Spanish artistry and went on to spawn a new nationalistic and individual tradition. To show the whole sweeping story, the Mexican government prepared an encyclopedic exhibit of more than 2,000 works of art from pre-Columbian times to the present (see next two pages). After five years in Europe, where 9,000,000 people saw it, the show has come to the U.S., and now is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy's horse becomes an intricate tattoo symbol of itself, and the European painter's tradition sinks in a jungle of design...
Sweeney has been a success. But the lengths to which he will go to make the museum the liveliest in the real South west were most strikingly demonstrated when he started working on his next exhibit, pre-Columbian...
...limited number of "essential shapes," and these are the subject of his paintings. He favors the rounded, horizontal shapes, so that a man's head takes on the look, not of an egg, but of a mushroom. "This makes my figures as squat as in the pre-Columbian art that I love." But figures rarely appear in his work at the Landry: his paintings have become "essential surfaces" in which he tries "to penetrate the primeval aspect of matter." Shells, corals, bones, bulbs-all fascinate him. So do his microscopic studies of bits of skin, strands of hair, pieces...
...been left to the University in the will of Woods Bliss '00 for the development of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, Bliss gave to Harvard in 1940. of preliminary conferences on for the United Nations, the Dumbarton Oaks estate, near Washington. D.C. now houses the University's on pre-Columbian art and Byzantine studies...