Maria MARTINS (Maria MARTINS PEREIRA E SOUZA , dite)

Brazilian sculptor

[ CAMPANHA 1894 – RIO DE JANEIRO 1973 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

AMÉRIQUE LATINE ET CARAÏBES

Brésil

Author : Anne LEPOITTEVIN

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Maria Martins was always a marginal artist within the Brazilian art world. Her works combined Western, and especially surrealist, influences – the result of her perpetually nomadic life – with Amazonian forms and legends, which at the time were seldom explored by her fellow Brazilian artists. Born to a wealthy family, M. Martins studied at a French school in Rio de Janeiro, and was at first destined to become a professional musician. After her first marriage ended, she went to France and met the diplomat Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza, whom she married in 1926. She took a late interest in sculpture, but travelling alongside her husband enabled her to learn a variety of techniques: she studied...

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Bibliography

■ BRETON A., TAPIÉ M., Les Statues magiques de Maria, Paris, R. Drouin, 1948 ; BRETON A., Le Surréalisme et la Peinture (1928), Paris, Gallimard, 2002.

■ GRAÇA COSTA RAMOS M. da, « Erotismo amazónico en la obra de Maria Martins », in Materia 2, Naturaleses, 2002.

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