Corazon I (Winged man with heart) (Heart I)

Luis González Palma

Cultural affiliations: Mestizo

born 1957

Corazon I (Winged man with heart) (Heart I), 1989

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: sensitized watercolor paper; ink

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 44.5 x 44.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1993.0030

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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2018–19 KU Common Book

“The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world.” (p. 18) “In Haiti the…expression lòt bò dlo, the other side of the water, can be used to denote the eternal afterlife as well as an émigré’s eventual destination.” (p. 94)

Archive Label: Palma’s Corazon (Spanish for “heart”) blends Catholic religion and the traditional myths that permeate Latin America in a style known as “magic realism,” most familiar through South American literature. The photograph is reminiscent of Latin-American baroque painting and sculpture, which sought to capture imagination and soul through the literal representation of the impossible and the horrific. Palma, a Guatemalan architect turned photographer, clearly disregards objective, visual reality, and instead creates an alternative realm (around something as palpable as the human body) of spirit and feeling.