vibration of colors

"How to define my attitude towards Tamayo's work?  Rotation, gravitation:  it attracts me, and at the same time, it keeps me at a distance--like a sun...little by little, with slow, stubborn self-assurance, it unfolds and becomes a fan of sensations, a vibration of colors and of forms that spread in waves...."

Octavio Paz, Essays on Mexican Art (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993)

Pictured:  Las músicas dormidas -- Rufino Tamayo, 1950 (Museo de Arte Moderno)