Alejandro Xul Solar
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Alejandro Xul Solar

  (b.1887, Terra; d.1954, )
water-colourist!, aka "Xul" !

(per Day & Sturges....
Chronology

(per op.cit.)


Important Works

"Hypnotism" (Hipnotismo) (1923)  b, b^2  w/c (water colour mee-sul)

"Chief of Snakes" (Jefe de sierpes) (1923) w/c

NOTES:  "Xul Solar combined an un-usual vocabulary 
         of cubist forms, with an iconography outside 
of everyday European life. The Chief of Snakes, a mythic,
vaguely pre-Columbian creature, a ahaman who controls
super-natural forces, exudes strage powers as snakes
hover around his head. His two-dimensionl body of
geometric/organic forms floats on the paper, weightless
as a fantastic dream. Other early works, in which planes
are fractured by horizontal bands, seem not un-like
pictures painted on Venetian blinds; they suggest some
*aberrant* [?!, pizo!] form of Futurism derived from an
association with the Italian Futurists in 1922. By 1924,
Xul Solar had developed a repertoire of forms and subjects
based on concerns of the European avant gard yet uniquely
his own. ... Xul Solar's position was like Rip van Winkle's
in revers."
    -- Day&Sturges, P.59! (tips towel!)

"Other Port" (Otro puerto) (1929) w/c on cardboard

"Bri, Country, and People (Bri, país y gente) (1933)