Artistic Expressions

The Mayan art is a reflection of their lifestyle and culture. This art was manifest in drawings and paintings on paper, low and high reliefs in stone, wood, pottery, jade, bone, and clay figures. Music was highly appreciated and there is evidence plays, which were conducted in public ceremonies. The Mayan nobility responsible work fine for their palaces, and to accentuate his greatness, among them, Jade jewellery and Obsidian. thrones engravings, paintings and polychrome ceramics with scenes of life in the courts, and of course, stelae with texts to be remembered for his feats in battle. Most figures of a wide variety, have been found in royal tombs. The Mayan art, it was not just for royalty, as evidenced by the many findings in the homes of ordinary people. On the other hand, it is important to know a bit more about the different forms of expression of the Mayans where on many occasions wished to translate their feelings: first, sculpture, identified by the most famous are the stelae, stone monoliths with engravings of rulers or gods and texts that have helped to understand their culture. Second, ceramics, it was something very anecdotal and left to fly the imagination of the artist Maya, which helped it to be changed.Thirdly, painting, the Mayans were great painters, especially in ceramics, but the murals on buildings and caves, they were very important to them, they used many vegetable dyes and minerals for their artworks. Finally, music, theatre and dance, for the ancient Maya, performing arts were integrated at all levels of society, from involving hundreds of people, to an individual playing a pito going to camp. The Murals show processions bands with drums, flutes, trumpets, while the nobles dressed in their best finery dancing. The Mayans are in one way or another something extraordinary, but it is vitally important to know about them to say.


By Diana Paola Palacios Chacón