The discursive configuration, from the word to the image: Duality of Rufino Tamayo and the origin of art

ABSTRACT
The relation between literature and the visual arts is not new and means for us the installation of a space of cultural intertextuality. The imbrication between expressive manifestations of different modalities and configurations has accompanied the history of art and is a recurring motive in artistic expression. The production of visual images or visual products from literary, narrative or poetic supports is a assemblage, that Roland Barthes identifies as the construction of a myth. In this article we analyzed mural Duality from the prospective of the model of actants of Greimas. This piece of art inaugurates a new stage of Tamayo’s painting because it interprets the pre-Hispanic aesthetic system from a contemporary prospective: the totality of the work is the unification of the modern with the old. In the realization of this mural, Tamayo elaborated his own vision, combining the myths and of diverse styles belonging to pre-Hispanic art.

Keywords: Visual art, Literature, Rufino Tamayo, narrative, Duality, analisys, pre-Hispanic myths, mural.