Xul Solar
By Conor
Last Wednesday we visited an art museum about Xul Solar. Xul Solar wasn’t his real name it was just a name he made for himself. His real name was Oscar Agustin Alejandro Schulz Solari.
Xul had a eccentric way of looking at the world which means he thinks his own way, for example, he made up his own time zone, made up his own language (he also could speak many other languages), and had a hobby for founding religions.
Xul’s paintings were really interesting and expressed a strong point of view. For example one painting is of tall stairs leading up to a mountain top but at the top there is nothing. I interpreted that painting as the stairs of life, they climb higher and higher but at the top all you find…is nothing.
Xul’s methods of painting were watercolor and tempera which was die mixed with eggs. He also made sculptures, one featured in the museum was a life size skeleton made out of wood!
Going to Xul Solar museum was probably one of the coolest things I’ve done in Buenos Aires because I actually liked his art and I don’t usually like art!
