Maruja Mallo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maruja Mallo

Spanish artist; surrealist painter

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1902

Place of Birth: Viveiro, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1995

Profession: teacher, painter, sculptor, theatre designer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Maruja Mallo

  • Maruja Mallo (5 January 1902 – 6 February 1995) was a Spanish painter.
  • Ana MarĂ­a GĂłmez González Mallo was born in Viveiro, Galicia, on 5 January 1902.
  • At the age of 22, she moved to Madrid, Spain and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando where she met other painters and studied arts between 1922 and 1926.
  • In 1928 Mallo's first exhibition was held at the Madrid offices of the journal Revista de Ocidente and the exhibition was praised for its originality and freshness.
  • According to Shirley Mangini '[a]lthough historians of Spanish avant-garde art locate the origins of the movement in the activities of [Salvador] DalĂ­, [Luis] Buñuel, [Frederico] GarcĂ­a Lorca, and another student at the Residencia, JosĂ© Bello, Mallo's artistic vision was an important catalyst in the Spanish avant-garde movement." Her paintings of the 1920s represent urban entertainments and sports, composed in complex overlapping arrangements that express the dynamism of modern life.
  • These works, such as La Verbena of 1927, combine sharply defined, smoothly modeled forms with bright colors.
  • One thing that stood out was her shift in the themes of her paintings, such as the importance Argentina had for her as a woman in the mid-twentieth century.
  • Her work became more surrealistic in the early 1930s, including geometric visual language, and she worked in ceramics during this time as well.
  • These themes ranged from fruits to agricultural structures as well as creating ceramic disks with themes of fish and bulls." Her later works show some influence of magical realism and look ahead to pop art.
  • In 1928 Ortega y Gasset organized her first exhibit, which was a success. Mallo lived in several places in Europe and left for Buenos Aires in 1937.
  • She had traveled to the U.S.
  • and felt more complete and inspired to create new material.
  • She returned to Spain in 1964, where she died in 1995 in Madrid. Mallo won a number of prestigious prizes during her life.
  • In 1922 she was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
  • In 1990 Mallo won the Gold Medal of Madrid and in 1991 the Gold Medal of the Xunta de Galicia.

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