Ceramics Of West Mexico

The exhibition is organized by shape and visitors are invited to contemplate how the form of each vessel informs both practical use and communicates ideas of power identity and belief.

Ceramics of west mexico.

Vessel explores the relationship between form and function through ancient west mexican ceramics. The limits of the teuchitlan tradition pdf. Chupícuaro s main archaeological site is located in the north central mexican state of guanajuato. The ceramics of west mexico were very different from contemporary civilizations.

Unknown colima maker west mexico large dog figure 250 bce 250 ce. Crocker art museum gift of the alfred and beatrice stern family 2013 99 1 photo by scott mccue photography. Burnished low fire ceramic earthenware with black and red pigments and manganese oxide residue 11 3 4 x 17 x 8 in. This paper examines the figural ceramics of cacaxtla tlaxcala mexico particularly the group of architectural decorations known as the once.

The ceramics of west mexico were very different from contemporary civilizations. It sits on the hills above the river lerma and its tributary coroneo or tiger river about seven. American museum of natural history mexican and central american virtual hall accessed april 2008. Ceramics of west mexico chupícuaro is an archaeological culture best known for its beautiful polychrome multi colored ceramics.

Curated by unlv alumni and museum staff paige bockman m a. The gallery specializes in authentic hand coiled historic and contemporary southwest indian pueblo pottery. Jalisco nayarit and colima were the primary sites creating some of the most intriguing and visually stimulating art of the time despite their removal from such infamous groups as the aztec. If you decide to try collecting yourself a visit to pottery of the southwest gallery will be a learning experience that will launch you into building the collection of your dreams.

Ceramics in mexico date back thousands of years before the pre columbian period when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced civilizations and cultures of mesoamerica with one exception pre hispanic wares were not glazed but rather burnished and painted with colored fine clay slips the potter s wheel was unknown as well. Jalisco nayarit and colima were the primary sites creating some of the most intriguing and visually stimulating art. Ceramic figures hm pre columbian west mexico have long been admired for their expressive qualities and by the middle of the twentieth century they became valuable additions to public and private collections worldwide. Naguals mythical shape shifters often portrayed on west mexico ceramics.