Painted Reflections Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesPainted Reflections emphasizes the sophisticated aesthetic qualities of Pueblo art through the study of reversible optical illusions and ambiguous figure-ground relationships. Beginning around 900 AD, Ancestral Pueblo artists began producing new designs on their ceramics—they painted pairs of motifs called isomers, or equal forms. From a conventional perspective, these works appear as painted motifs on unpainted backgrounds. But […]