Cintli, Corn, Maíz

2020

91.5 cm 122 cm 4 cm

Citation

This acrylic on canvas painting has a large image of a corn cob, with multicolored grains of corn still on the cob, whose leaves transform into the long tail feathers of a quetzal bird. This work expresses the centrality of corn to many Indigenous and mestizo Latin American cu...

Painting

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102993
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painting
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normalized
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Jessy DeSantis, 2020, by creation; Walters Art Museum, 2023, by purchase.
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CC0
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en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2951

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