CDHM The Miniature Way
June 2011, Issue 17
Dollhouse Tourism, Guatemala
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Art in Antigua, Guatemala, particularly is embedded in the very fabric of the city design. Everything is a collection of colonial buildings linked by cobbled streets inviting visitors to enjoy a visually creative feast. The Antigua Guatemala museums and art galleries offer art exhibitions and activities throughout the year, presenting the different eras in the history of their country's art.

The Santo Domingo Museum at the Convent - Hotel Casa Santo Domingo is an ancient convent turned into a museum and hotel in Antigua Guatemala. The Santo Domingo Hotel Museum is dedicated to Marco Augusto Quiroa, a great Guatemalan writer and painter. This permanent exhibit is joined by works from other Guatemalan and international artists.

Another well known Guatemalan artist is Alfred Julio Jensen, an abstract painter best known for his grids of tiny, brightly colored triangles and squares painted in thick impasto. He was one of a number of artists in the 1960s working with serial images, progressing to the creation of a series of canvases based on the I Ching and the Delphic Oracles.