Day and Night (Spanish: Día y noche) is a mural by Rufino Tamayo, painted using Vinylite resin on canvas and mounted on particleboard.
As well as Still Life, it was originally created for the perfumes and pharmacy section of the Sanborns store on Lafragua Street in Mexico City.
The mural contains abstract elements associated with the cosmos and with Mesoamerican architecture, with chromatic contrasts of red and black.
[2] The work reflects Tamayo’s interest in space during the 1950s, as well as a growing involvement with Mexican history.
[3] On the occasion of the celebrations of seventy years of artistic production by Tamayo, the mural was taken from its original setting and exhibited in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City before travelling to Madrid, Moscow, and Oslo.