Mayas. Lenguaje de la belleza

digital information application on the temporary exhibition "Maya, the language of beauty. Cross perspectives" presented at the National Museum of Anthropology CDMX.

This application provides information about the Mayan art and ideological values ​​embodied in it, focusing particularly on the representations of a predominant element in his art: the body, which idealized revealing his own conception of man and his paradigms of beauty.

Shows a selection of images of the pieces presented in this exhibition, which can be shared by social networks with friends and family.

It provides information about the museum: schedules and business facilities.

"Mayas, the language of beauty. Crossed Glances" is a different approach to the chronological narrative or the theme that revolves around aspects that distinguish them as pre-Hispanic Mayan cultural group. In her time, styles and functions combine to offer a vision of Maya art, ideological it embodied values, and the importance of these concepts over time and space, focusing particularly on the representations of a predominant element in its plastic: the body, which idealized revealing his own conception of man and his paradigms of beauty-understanding to it not as a mere aesthetic value but in its broadest sense: the sublime beauty in virtue relate and divine, the forces of nature, structure of the cosmos and the cycle time.

Through various art forms, some with exquisite realism and others with more symbolic and idealized interpretations, the Maya revealed multiple physical details of individuals who formed their society, but also the elements of their environment, like the animals they considered their own co-essence and of course his gods, who showed with human features interspersed with animal, vegetable or, imagined elements.

Today we can understand these representations thanks to the important corpus of texts written by Mayan Indians and mestizos, as well as the testimony of the chroniclers of the sixteenth century, who described the trappings, practices and customs of the Maya with whom they had contact; but mainly we owe our current knowledge of the prehispanic Maya to the valuable work of research and interpretation developed over time by archaeologists, physical anthropologists, ethno-historians and art historians, among other groups of academics specializing in that culture.

But mostly, we owe our current knowledge of the prehispanic Maya to the valuable work of research and interpretation developed long by archaeologists, physical anthropologists, ethno-historians and art historians, among other groups of academics specializing in Mayan culture.

Are just three glances that intersect at the exhibition to explore the representations and meanings of the body in Maya art, seen from four perspectives:

The body as canvas, which refers to the paradigms expressed by bodily beauty modifications practiced, often to resemble other gods and to honor them.

The coated body, showing the different types of clothing used by the Maya as expressions of their social and ideological system.

Animal counterpart, which speaks precisely about the representations of these beings who, according to the Mayan worldview, accompanying the human from birth.

The bodies of divinity, which presents a series of images of deities and beings of prehispanic Maya pantheon.