art and music

history music

Traditional Music
The music has roots in traditional Guatemalan Mayan culture, the elements evolved in the sixteenth century and became conducting a merger with Spanish and Afro-Caribbeans. A living example of this is the marimba representing the three cultures that are part of the Guatemalan cultural base.
The marimba is an instrument of the family of xylophones, which has been transformed by history in Guatemala, including marimbas known we have the "bow marimba" that was portable with a diatonic keyboard with gourd resonators.
The marimba "simple" which is the stationary, supported on wooden legs and sounding boards of wood. The double marimba or "color" created in 1984, which has keys that manage diatonic represent both the white keys of a piano, like the black keys, it does play a chromatic scale of 12 sounds.
The marimba is an invention that was able to assimilate the piano music for that time, the instrument became popular in the twentieth century.

history art

Although the remains that have survived are very scarce, the wall painting of Classic Maya period achieved great technical perfection and artistic quality, achieving a delicate balance between naturalism and severity designs imposed by the convention of the issues .

Although they use spot devoid of perspective muralists Maya were able to create the illusion of space. First drew the picture on a diluted red stucco, then painted the background being white figures and then were filling the spaces with their different colors. To suggest a volume perspective and looked to the thread of the figures, the juxtaposition of colors and the distribution of motifs in different registers of horizontal bands. The most important murals that remain are the site of Bonampak (Chiapas). The paintings occupy the whole of the walls of three rooms in a building (790 AD). Tell war events including the preliminary ceremonies to battle (fourth I), battle (Room II) and the final sacrifice (fourth III). Fragments of ancient paintings in Uaxactun, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Coba.
Ceramic and lithic
In the same way as Maya mural plasmaron mythological scenes and courtesans in their compositions, the ceramics reflect several aspects related to similar topics. Polychrome pottery, associated with the funeral world, was the most widespread. The technique was similar to that of the murals but also played with the expressive possibilities afforded them the slip and polish. Usually cylinders, plates and dishes of different dimensions where the paint covering almost the entire surface. The profiles of the drawings were made in black on a monochrome background, cream or orange. The other style, which still has very few, called codex, remember the technique used by the Maya scribes on parchment strips plastered and painted. The anthropomorphic figures also achieved great popularity and perfection. The figurines called the island of Jaina (Campeche) include a diverse sample of different physical types. This remote island to bury famous people came from many sources, and the artisans of the cemetery preparing the grave goods that were to accompany them on their journey to the underworld (Xibalba).

The size of semi-precious stones, jade and obsidian, are a valuable contribution to Mayan art. Human figures, eccentric and necklaces reached a degree of perfection that he be included in the regalia of the princely tombs