Post #719126 by tikilongbeach on Tue, Jun 3, 2014 1:34 PM

This was my favorite piece of art at the Dallas Museum of Art. I admired it many, many times. It was originally designed in 1954 for the Stewart Building.

"Mexican muralist Miguel Covarrubias designed this sixty-foot long mosaic mural. Composed of glass pieces, Genesis is based on an ancient Mexican myth that four worlds preceded the world we currently live in. According to the myth, four principal deities controlled the four elements—water, earth, fire, and air—and each god destroyed the world once using their element. The gods then worked together to create the fifth, or current world. The images of the mural reference this myth and incorporate imagery from numerous historic cultures in Central and North America."

Genesis: The Gift of Life

You can see close up images of the mosaic here: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/dallas/dallasmuseumsc/sc2.html

-Lori

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