The Leader

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

At the 1924 exhibition in Buenos Aires, Solari presented a series of his watercolour works, in which numerous symbols, inscriptions and signs seem to soar in the air, overlapping and intertwining. Thanks to watercolour transparency, the artist achieved a sense of the depth of space, completely without using a perspective composition. The central image of the leader resembles the totem of the ancient Indians, as well as the warm ocher and orange palette of the painting characteristic of the art of the indigenous peoples of America. In the work of Xul Solar, the complex symbolism and meaningfulness of the images combines with amazing simplicity as if a child drew that.