Panel
Chancay (Central coast, Peru)
1000-1476
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; painted
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 101.9 × 62.9 cm (40 1/8 × 24 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Peru
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Bruce J. Graham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This vibrantly painted panel depicts a central figure framed by felines and fish. The figure wears a crescent headdress on a trapezoidal head while spindly limbs extend from its robustly rounded triangular torso. Although the artist was working with common motifs, the individual’s hand and creativity are discernible through the variations in line thickness and intensity of color. With only a single colorant, the artist was able to create multiple forms through the use of a defining, colorless outline.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
