Artist: Carlos Mérida
Date: 1950
Museum: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
Technique: Gouache
A foundational figure of Mexican modernism, Mérida cultivated a distinctly American language of abstraction, informed by the indigenous traditions of the ancient Maya and the twentieth-century Cubist and Constructivist avant-gardes. A striking, linear geometry defines his work of the 1950s, in which a rhythmic, flat pattern of color and negative space animates an underlying grid. The tesselated surfaces and pure colors recall Joan Miró’s seminal
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