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One aspect of Mayan art that is often overlooked is the variety of style and design that it contains. Mayan styles of art are mono-stylistic. Mayan art gave almost free reign to the artist. Its variations from one workshop to another, the products of which were intended in good part to be given or sold to the royalty of other cities, Mayan vase paintings are more similar to the art of the modern period than the art of any other pre-modern people. Mayan painters and sculptors sometimes signed their work. Different names were used for different artifacts: uk’ib’, “drinking vase”, jaay, “bowl”, lak, “plate”, and jawante’, “tripod plate”. Often the work produced by a particular artist, was heavily sought after by the elite classes of Maya society. The most renown is Aj Muwan from Naranjo.
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Moholy-Nagy, .Hattula"The Field Laboratory at Tikal" Expedition Magazine 5.3 (May 1963): n. pag.Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum, May 1963 Web. 29 Nov 2015 <http://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/?p=611>
"Tripod Vessel [Mexico; Teotihuacan]" (1979.206.364) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.206.364. (October 2006)
Moholy-Nagy, .Hattula"The Field Laboratory at Tikal" Expedition Magazine 5.3 (May 1963): n. pag.Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum, May 1963 Web. 29 Nov 2015 <http://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/?p=611>
"Tripod Vessel [Mexico; Teotihuacan]" (1979.206.364) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.206.364. (October 2006)