Civilização conhecida por esculturas em pedra de cabeças e por ter descoberto o cacau, foi dominada por Astecas. Exposição do LACMA traz a arte em pedra dos Olmecas.
O LACMA é um museu de arte dos Estados Unidos que fica em Los Angeles.
October 2, 2010–January 9, 2011
Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC, was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads of their rulers. The colossal sculptures in the exhibition weigh between 7 and 10 tons each.
The exhibition also includes small-scale jadeite objects that embody the symbolism of sacred and secular authority among the Olmec. Olmec artists were unsurpassed in their ability to work with this extremely hard stone, using elementary tools like chert, water and sand.
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, is co-organized by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, LACMA, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and is curated at LACMA by Virginia Fields, senior curator of Arts of the Ancient Americas. The exhibition at LACMA will be the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico’s earliest civilization.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Image: Photo © 2010 Museum Associates/LACMA
El Bebé (Monument 2) Mexico, Veracruz, La Merced1000-800 BC
El Bebé (Monument 2)
Mexico, Veracruz, La Merced
1000-800 BCSerpentine
Centro Regional Veracruz
Photo: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes—Instituto nacional de Antropología e Historia—México—Javier Hinojosa.
Bottle with Carved Relief Mexico, Central Highlands1200–600 BC
Bottle with Carved Relief
Mexico, Central Highlands
1200–600 BCSerpentine
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
Photo: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes—Instituto nacional de Antropología e Historia—México—Javier Hinojosa.
Seated Figure with Head Resting on Hand Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas1200–800 BC
Seated Figure with Head Resting on Hand
Mexico, Puebla, Las Bocas
1200–800 BCKaolin ceramic
Fundacíon Amparo–Museo Amparo
Photo: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes—Instituto nacional de Antropología e Historia—México—Javier Hinojosa.
Colossal Head 5 Mexico, Veracruz, Municipality of Texitepec San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán 1200–900 BC
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