Image: Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City is highlighting a section of its exhibition ‘Arte y visualidad en el México Moderno’, drawing attention to the drawing method developed by Adolfo Best Maugard. In a post promoting the show, the museum invites visitors to discover the exhibition cabinet devoted to his approach, described as a “revolutionary” method for drawing the world through seven elementary lines.
The museum’s message frames the presentation as a journey between tradition, avant-garde and design. While the post does not provide full curatorial details, it makes clear that Best Maugard’s system is being presented as part of a broader look at visual culture in modern Mexico, rather than as a standalone display. The emphasis on a cabinet suggests a focused interpretive section within the exhibition, giving visitors a closer view of one of the intellectual and artistic frameworks associated with Mexican modernism.
Adolfo Best Maugard is identified in the museum’s announcement as the figure behind the drawing method at the center of the display. The post refers to his ‘Siete líneas elementales para dibujar el mundo’ and presents the method as a key point of entry into the exhibition’s themes. No further biographical or historical details were included in the source material, but the wording places his work alongside the exhibition’s broader concern with the relationship between artistic practice and visual modernity in Mexico.
Museo Nacional de Arte, commonly known as MUNAL, is one of Mexico City’s major institutions for art history and exhibitions. Its social media post positions ‘Arte y visualidad en el México Moderno’ as an opportunity to explore how modern Mexican art connected tradition, experimentation and design thinking. The museum’s invitation is concise, but it underlines the exhibition’s focus on a specific method as a way of opening onto larger questions of modern visual culture.
The announcement does not include opening or closing dates, curatorial credits or a full list of works on view. It also does not specify whether the exhibition cabinet is a permanent section or part of a temporary installation. What it does confirm is that visitors can see a dedicated display about Best Maugard’s method within ‘Arte y visualidad en el México Moderno’, and that the museum is currently directing attention to this component of the exhibition through its public channels.
