Pan-Tree

Mediums: watercolour and ink on paper pasted on cardboard.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, the USA).

The idea of ​​combining all types of art, as well as religious and mystical teachings inspired the artist to create outstanding works. He called these original riddle paintings or cipher paintings “Pan-tree” and created several versions of it, from 1952 until the end of his life. The composition of the work is a centrally located vertical colour scheme that depicts various planets, symbolic signs, hieroglyphs, inscriptions and numbers. The conventional trunk of the “tree” is divided into equal sectors, each of which is marked by its colour, pattern and sign. Above all, Xul Solar depicted an all-seeing eye, under the gaze of which all complex processes in the universe take place.