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May 14, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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“Mujeres de Metepec” (Women of Metepec) by Carlos Mérida (Guatemalan) - Oil on canvas / 1922 - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas) #WomenInArt #CarlosMerida #CarlosMérida #Mérida #Merida #MuseumofFineArtsHouston #MFAH #LatinAmericanArt #art #artText #GuatemalanArt #GuatemalanArtist #arte #1920sArt
Painted in 1922, this work comes from an important early moment in Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida’s career, when he was shaping a modern visual language that drew on both European avant-garde simplification and the Indigenous and popular cultures of Guatemala and Mexico. Rather than painting anecdotal action or social drama, he makes a pair of women feel timeless and iconic. Two women stand close together against a vivid green background, filling almost the whole painting. The woman at left faces forward, her expression calm and steady, with almond-shaped eyes, long dark braids, and a black rebozo striped with soft pink lines draped over her shoulders and arm. A wedge of a white shirt and a blue skirt appear beneath it. The woman at right turns in profile toward her companion. Her black hair is center-parted and braided, and she wears a round earring and a pink patterned garment banded with blue and gold-like dots. Their skin is rendered in warm brown tones with their features simplified into clear outlines and smooth planes. Tiny houses perch on distant hill made from thin, curving lines, giving the scene a dreamlike sense of place rather than a fully described landscape. The sitters are not identified, but Mérida presents them with dignity, gravity, and quiet monumentality. Their stillness, flattened forms, and patterned textiles turn everyday dress into structure, rhythm, and design. Metepec names a real place, yet the painting resists mere ethnographic description. It becomes something more lyrical and distilled. The small houses behind them hint at village life, but the figures dominate the picture with a sculptural calm that suggests presence, memory, and cultural continuity. Mérida spent much of his life in Mexico and was especially admired for bringing modernist abstraction into conversation Indigenous and Latin American sources. Here, that synthesis is tender rather than loud as two women become carriers of beauty, place, and identity.
April 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Fête des Oiseaux (Fiesta de pájaros), 1959.
Carlos Mérida (1891-1984) : artiste guatémaltèque naturalisé mexicain, pionnier du modernisme, célèbre pour avoir fusionné le cubisme et l'art abstrait européen avec les motifs et mythologies maya-quichés.
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August 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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May 29, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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May 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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June 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Festival of the Birds (Fiesta de pájaros)
polished board
1959
Carlos Mérida (b. Guatemala 1891-1984)
Mexico

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Carlos Mérida (1891–1984) was a Guatemalan-born artist and naturalized Mexican citizen who pioneered a unique artistic style merging European modernism with pre-Columbian and indigenous Latin American culture. Famous for his paintings, prints, and massive mosaic murals, he transitioned from figurative folk art to pure geometric abstraction. Mérida moved to Mexico City in 1919, and combined the abstract styles found in European modernism with pre-Hispanic aesthetics. Festival of Birds, 1959, is an illustration of his approach—the inclusion of the birds above the figures’ outstretched hands may be inspired by a glyph of a bird from Maya texts, which Mérida was known to admire. Like many other Mexican Modernists, he turned to ancient artworks as models for the dynamism of his paintings.
May 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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El hombre que tradujo los códices prehispánicos al lenguaje del siglo XX! Un canto geométrico a Mesoamérica
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December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Carlos Merida
"Corazon Sangrante"
oil on canvas
1973

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Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida (1891-1984) is a prominent figure in Mexico's modern art movement. In 1919, fascinated by the artistic revolution, he moved to Mexico City and became involved with the muralists, working as an assistant to Diego Rivera. Mérida's early work, like that of many of the Mexican muralists, was politically oriented and executed in a figurative style. His style shifted after 1927, when Mérida took a second trip to Europe, his art became less representational; he eventually developed his characteristic abstract style of geometrically conceived figures and forms, as seen here. In his later works he combined modern European influences from Cubism and Surrealism, with aspects of Mayan art.
January 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Retrato de Anita Mérida, (1915)
April 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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May 27, 2026 at 2:51 PM