Muros Biombos 1948

Xul Solar's Muros Biombos is made from watercolor and ink, and it feels like a landscape where the architecture is breathing. The first thing that strikes you is the texture: each brick is carefully rendered, and you can almost feel the roughness of the stone. And the way he uses color—those muted, earthy tones—it's like the whole scene is steeped in history, or a dream. The paint seems thin, almost translucent in places, which gives it a kind of ethereal quality. Look at how the walls curve and twist, creating these narrow passageways, and then see the little faces! It’s this tension between order and chaos that really gets me, like a city planner gone rogue. And it reminds me a little of Giorgio de Chirico, that sense of unsettling stillness, but Solar brings his own weird, mystical flavor to it. Anyway, it's a great reminder that art doesn't have to make sense, it just has to make you feel something.