Dos Casas 1922

Xul Solar’s 'Dos Casas' is an undated artwork of uncertain medium, maybe watercolor or crayon. It is dreamlike, as if the architecture emerged from a child's drawing. Solar's palette of yellows, reds, greens, and blues feels playful, the black a grounding force. I wonder what it was like for Solar to make this? The act of making is a search. Look at the ladders leading up to one of the houses—they seem to go nowhere. Those tiny figures in the windows, are they waving or trapped? The flags seem to declare something, but what? Solar's hand is evident, the texture slightly gritty. Color creates mood. Perhaps Solar's Dos Casas reflects a personal mythology, akin to Hilma af Klint, or the symbolist Odilon Redon. Artists are always in conversation, each mark resonating across time. 'Dos Casas' invites us into a world of imagination and mystery, an invitation to find our own meaning within its enigmatic forms.