MOMA 1940 Mexican Art When we speak of pre-Spanish art in Mexico,
it must not be forgotten that we include at least
twenty centuries and that within this period there
necessarily exist many styles that correspond to of a ritual calendar called "tonalpohualli" among Proyectos 1950-1970 Federico Cantú - Patrimonio UANL different periods in many different cultures. It would be false, for example, to consider pre-Spanish art in Mexico as only the art of the Aztecs or Mayas. This popular conception is as erroneous as would be the idea that all Mediterranean and European art is represented by that of the French or English in the eighteenth century. Aztecs and Mayas were the most important tribes that the Spaniards found at the time of the Conquest, but not even then were they the only great peoples in Mexico, nor did they represent an entirely original art and culture with out antecedents, especially if we consider not only the aboriginal art at the time of the discovery of Am