The house looked as if the blue of its walls had poured down directly from the sky, as if the sun had covered the door and window frames with yellow kisses, and as if the canopy had been tickled by the bougainvillea until it was literally pink. Entering the rooms you found yourself treading on kiwi-green carpets, sitting on pink sofas, and gazing at turquoise walls in front of which strelizia in vases seemed to emit flaming orange lightning flashes.
Mexico is an architectual and artistic empire unfamiliar with black-and-white painting. Even early high cultures such as that of the Maya produced glistening gold ornaments and mosaics of coloured feathers; the Spanish colonial masters constructed their buildings using vibrant volcanic rock or limestone and were liberal with colours when having them painted; and later the representatives of Muralismo told the history of their country in radiant murals.
