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We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art Gallery Tour

Nov
17
2024

Join a LACMA docent for a gallery tour of their PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art.

Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility: as they adorned the surfaces of buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, and sculptures with color, they (quite literally) made the world. The power of color emerged from the materiality of its pigments, the skilled hands that crafted it, and the communities whose knowledge imbued it with meaning. Color mapped the very order of the cosmos, of time and space. By engineering and deploying color, artists wielded the power of cosmic creation in their hands. We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art explores the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica. Histories of colonialism and industrialization in the “color-averse” West have minimized the deep significance of color in the Indigenous Americas. This exhibition follows two interconnected lines of inquiry—technical and material analyses, and Indigenous conceptions of art and image—to reach the full richness of color at the core of Mesoamerican worldviews.

Roll-out photo of Cylinder Vessel with Palace Scene, 740-800. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost. ©2017 Museum Associates/ LACMA Conservation Center, by Yosi Pozeilov.

Free with admission

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

1:30PM - 2:00PM

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