BONUS! Day of the Dead Murals XIV.
The Murral of Jalalaco Paul J. Sachs was an art collector, connoisseur, curator at the Fogg Art Museum professor emeritus at Harvard, and one of the founders of the Museum of Modern art, New York City. He published two seminal books on understanding drawing: Early European Drawings and Prints and Modern Prints and Drawings. His interests and his collection included all the many styles of western and world draftsmanship. In the latter book he set forth how to understand if a drawing is a good drawing. What is being presented should be clearly stated. One must be able to distinguish the various planes. It should display a mastery of technique. It should display a mastery of materials. The materials and the technique should be appropriate to the image presented. Nothing in excess. When I first encountered this last mural in this series, the grim reaper as a Spanish picador, I was immediately reminded of Professor Sachs. Every one of his criteria are in evidence here. This is a master
