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by Mildred Boyd Artistically
speaking the old world had little to teach those whose ancestors had been
creating magnificent works since time began. The most ancient ruins have
yielded statues and murals of awesome beauty and power. In the colossal
Olmec heads and the painted walls of Teotihuacan; in the tiny Jaina figurines
and the Bonomapak murals and, after the Conquest, in the lavish display
of saints and virgins in countless churches; the consummate skill of generations
of artists is everywhere evident.
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