Genesis (detail)
Date: 1954
Artist: Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican, 1904 - 1957
Medium:Glass mosaic; Venetian glass technique
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Dimensions: Overall: 144 x 720 in. (3 m 65.76 cm x 18 m 28.8 cm)
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.
The mosaic mural was commissioned for a building in Dallas in 1954, but was later donated to the Dallas Museum of Art.
Genesis (detail)
Date: 1954
Artist: Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican, 1904 - 1957
Medium:Glass mosaic; Venetian glass technique
Geographic Location:
Dimensions: Overall: 144 x 720 in. (3 m 65.76 cm x 18 m 28.8 cm)
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.
The mosaic mural was commissioned for a building in Dallas in 1954, but was later donated to the Dallas Museum of Art.