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

$85.00 at de Young Museum.

Groundbreaking exploration of ancient techniques and cosmologies of color in Mesoamerica. Ancient Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility. As they used color to adorn buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, sculptures, textiles, wall murals, mosaics and other items, they quite literally made the world. The power of color emerged from the materiality of its pigments and the communities whose knowledge of the natural world imbued it with meaning. Histories of colonialism and…