Mr. Fat Head

The stone head featured in this picture is of Mayan design. It is located in a park across from La Vita and nearly under the Hemisphere Tower. These locations are all in downtown San Antonio, where art is always on display.

Color is a very defining feature in art, and is often used to give special effect. The colors used on the Mayan head are those of the natural stone. These colors serve to give it the look of ancients. To the naked eye it looks as if it has been sitting there for hundreds of years.

Shape or form of an object may contribute to the purpose or feeling of the piece of art. In the case of the Mayan head, form is most definitely utilized to give it some purpose. The obvious form is a man’s head and the purpose is to commemorate. These huge heads were once carved and erected to commemorate important and notable Mayan people.

Balance is painfully evident in this piece of art because if it were not the head would simply topple over. This sculpture has a wide top, thus requiring a wide bottom to securely support the load. Mayan head is a very steady piece that has been created wide from the top to the bottom and everything in between. He is built from a rock, like a rock.

There are some pieces that are purposefully created without symmetry and they are titled asymmetrical, but “Mr. Fat Head” is not so. He is imperfectly symmetrical. All that was carried out to one side of the face has been carefully correlated on the other. It is not atomically accurate, but it will do. He is certainly more symmetrical than most of us.

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