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...Western Hemisphere has produced two arts all its own: 1) U. S. jazz, 2) Mexican painting. These two arts are curiously alike. Neither is much influenced by European traditions; jazz grows from Negro folk tunes, Mexican painting from Aztec and Maya religious sculpture and the primitive religious paintings (retablos) that have hung for generations, as thick as shingles, in every mud-walled Mexican church. Like jazz, Mexican art is the product of exuberant talent rather than of training; like jazz, it has produced few first-rank geniuses, but the scintillating feats of line-&-color-crazed Mexicans often leave the learned...
Professor Tozzer was presented with a pre-publication copy of a book. "The Maya and Their Neighbors," written and dedicated to him by many of those present. He is recognized as an outstanding authority on Central American archaeology and the Mayan civilization, and he has done much excavation and exploration in that field...
Borrowed by Director Roland J. McKinney of the Baltimore Museum of Art were 149 pieces representing virtually the entire range of Maya civilization from 1 A.D. to 1541 A.D. The Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with...
Prodigal Son. In the winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...