Tú y Yo 1923

Xul Solar made this enigmatic painting, Tú y Yo, with watercolor, perhaps allowing the colors to bleed and merge, creating a hazy dreamscape of geometric forms and symbolic figures. I wonder what it was like for Solar to create this? Maybe he felt like he was piecing together fragments of a shared identity, exploring the tensions and harmonies between two individuals. The palette is like faded memories or ancient frescoes, ochres, reds and browns. It gives the whole piece a feeling of something old and worn, like a myth retold through generations. The artist has constructed this scene of faces and figures in an ongoing exchange. The snake slithering between them, and the staccato marks describing fingers. It’s an ongoing conversation, an exchange of ideas across time. Artists inspire one another's creativity and invite uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.