The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has some beautiful pieces. This painting in particular caught my eye during a fun museum party hosted by the student DMSAC group:
To be honest, it was really this painting that sparked my interest in diving the cenotes in Mexico- an experience I can finally say that I have done! Take a look at my post over in the North America section of the Travel tab to find my thoughts on my cenote dives.
This painting is called Cenote (Natural Sinkhole) and it was painted in 1947 by Gunther Gerzso, an artist from Mexico City. The medium is oil on masonite. I loved the informational blurb about this piece on the placard mounted below. Here is what it said:
"Gerzso sought to combine abstraction with local cultural traditions in Mexico. Cenote is the Maya word for a water-filled sinkhole, or natural well. As sources of life, these wells were honored by the ancient Maya with precious offerings of gold and jade, but they were also the sites of violent human sacrifice.
Gerzso's painting resembles a landscape viewed from above. The blues and greens of the water are surrounded by the rough jagged lines of dry limestone. The arrangement of geometric shapes and multiple layers of paint draw us into the cenote's center, or, perhaps, into a mysterious, deep space of the imagination."
~burn bright~
Jess