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        "title": "Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 2",
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        "description": "Like many of his Mexican contemporaries-Diego Rivera or Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco, for instance-Merida fused modernist styles with the ancient indigenous traditions of the Americas. This set of ten color lithographs, created to accompany text taken from the Popol-Vuh, the creation story of the Mayan people, combines Abstract Expressionist gesture with the linear drawings found in the wall murals of ancient Mayan buildings.",
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