Title
Head for the Figure of Song, Design for the Mural Creation
Creator
Date
c. 1922
Format
Description
The Charlot Collection contains a brown paper pouncing stencil for the head of the figure of Song, who sits with Dance, Music, and Comedy on the lower left side of Diego Rivera's mural Creation at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (National Preparatory School) in Mexico City. Rivera painted his first mural in 1922-1923 using encaustic and gold leaf, a very labor-intensive technique. Charlot and other artists assisted him on the project. Charcoal would have been pounced through the stencil holes in transferring the full-scale drawing to the wall.
Is Part Of
Charlot Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library
Page Location
162