LA MÁSCARA DE HUN CAME 1965

Carlos Merida made ‘La Máscara de Hun Came’ with watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper. I love the blues. Don't you? Like a cool, ancient mosaic slowly sinking into black. I imagine Merida, hunched over this piece, shifting shapes, trying to find the perfect balance between the abstract and the symbolic. You know, feeling his way through the composition, line by line. Maybe he was thinking about Mayan mythology or ancient architecture. Look at that dark, almost menacing eye, a portal to somewhere mysterious. And those intersecting lines – like he's mapped out a secret code or a forgotten landscape. It reminds me a little of Torres-Garcia's constructive universalism, that feeling of embedding hidden meanings into the structure of the work. Painting is always a conversation, right? Each artist borrowing, responding, pushing back. A constant exchange of ideas and feelings. It makes you think about what a painting can be, how many stories it can tell without saying a word.