Untitled – (Carlos Mérida) ◄ Tidligere neste ►

Artist: Carlos Mérida

Dato: 1950

Museum: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)

Teknikk: 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