Alejandro Colina

In 1920, Colina decided to leave Caracas and moved to La Guajira, in Zulia State, where he coexisted with the indigenous peoples of the West of the country for eight years.

Colina returned to Caracas, powerfully influenced by his long cohabitation with the indigenous peoples, who were to become the main themes for his work.

In that same room he created the mural "Arts, Science and Psychiatry" and twelve busts portraying patients neighbors, each representing a particular disease.

In 1951 he created the famous sculpture of Maria Lionza, a goddess originating in the indigenous state of Yaracuy, who appears in the statue as a beautiful Venezuelan woman riding a tapir.

[2] Colina portrayed her as naked and voluptuous, with wide hips and strong musculature, seated on the tapir which is standing on a snake.