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María IZQUIERDO (née María Cenobia IZQUIERDO GUTIÉRREZ )

Mexican painter
[ SAN JUAN DE LOS LAGOS 1902 ou 1906 – MEXICO 1955 ]
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ARTS
Geographical area :
AMÉRIQUE LATINE ET CARAÏBES
Mexique

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Born in a rural environment deeply attached to nineteenth-century Mexican Métis traditions, Maria Izquierdo was raised by her maternal grandparents, who pushed her to marry a soldier when she was fourteen years old. In 1926, after leaving her husband and distancing herself from her maternal family, she found herself alone in Mexico City with her three children. From 1927 to 1928 she studied at the prestigious San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts. Diego Rivera, whom she met during this period, wrote in 1929 that “her personality is like her painting: classically Mexican” – a formulation that would serve as a kind of baptism into the post-revolutionary artistic movement, a movement that viewed distinguished between...

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Bibliography

■ Maria Izquierdo: 1902-1955 (exhibition catalogue). Text by L. M. Lozano, T. de Conde. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Centre Museum, 1996.

■The True Poetry: The Art of Maria Izquierdo (exhibition catalogue). Edited by E. Ferrer. New York: Americas Society Art Gallery, 1997.

■ Monsivais C. Maria Izquierdo. Mexico: Casa de Bolsa Cremi, 1986.

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