Ceramic Mexican Tree Of Life

The text traces the origins of the tree of life to its pre columbian past and the evolution of the genre in three mexican potting towns.

Ceramic mexican tree of life.

The publication accompanies an exhibition drawn largely from the gerald daniel collection of mexican folk art gifted to the museum in 1997 and features works dating from the 1940s to late 1990s. Mexican tree of life is the name given to a hand coiled pottery sculpture depicting the biblical tree of life. Traditionally the tree sculpture would include adam and eve with the tempting serpent but the themes have evolved and today is common to find trees about various subjects such as day of the dead and folk art. árbol de la vida is a theme of clay sculpture created in central mexico especially in the municipality of metepec state of mexico the image depicted in these sculptures originally was for the teaching of the biblical story of creation to natives in the early colonial period.

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