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Influenced by the visual qualities of Pre-Columbian art, Carlos Mérida developed an approach to abstraction marked by geometric forms and flat areas of intense color. This work demonstrates Mérida’s interest in abstraction as well as Surrealism, to which the artist had been exposed during his European sojourns. Configurations of curved and straight lines delineate circles, triangles, crosses, and scrolls. These recognizable elements are juxtaposed with more ambiguous shapes and blotchy areas of texture. Despite the overall abstraction of the images, each maintains the suggestion of humanoid figures, resulting in a bizarre juxtaposition of the organic and the inorganic.