María Izquierdo (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican artist
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Place of Birth: San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico
About María Izquierdo (artist)
- María Izquierdo (October 30, 1902, San Juan de los Lagos – December 2, 1955, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter.
- She was born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez in San Juan de los Lagos in the state of Jalisco;.
- At the age of 5, she moved with her mother to Torreón after the death of her father.
- Her mother later married Dr.
- Nicanor Valdes Rodríguez, at which point Izquierdo was raised by her grandparents and relatives in small towns in Northern Mexico.
- Both her grandmother and aunt were devout Catholics and much of her upbringing revolved around daily Catholic traditions.
- At age fourteen she had an arranged marriage to a senior army officer, Colonel Cándido Posadas, and bore three children by the time she was 17 years old.
- In 1923, she and her family moved to Mexico City, where she first began to develop into a professional artist.
- She had a short-lived marriage, divorcing from her husband around 1928.
- Izquierdo has three children, two boys and a girl.
- It is said that her daughter has influenced some of Izquierdo's work, including "Niñas Durmiendo".
- Izquierdo and her family moved to Mexico City where she was able to go to school to study art.
- There she met her mentors Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo, who was also said to be her lover.
- Izquierdo had a second marriage, also short-lived, with Chilean painter Raul Uribe.Always interested in art, Izquierdo spent much of her time alone teaching herself new art techniques.
- When she and her family moved to Mexico City in the 1920s, she acted on her passion and left her husband.
- In the early 1920s, Izquierdo began associating herself with the Movimiento Pro-Arte Mexicano and the Contemporáneos.
- One of her colleagues and close friend, Lola Álvarez Bravo remembers her as "a very cheerful woman with a folf spirit...
- like a jar full of pure fresh water...
- The inclination that Maria had for folklore was not that of a distant viewer, she seemed rather to be an insider, like one more folk element."María Izquierdo is known for being the first Mexican woman to have her artwork exhibited in the United States.
- She committed both her life and her career to painting art that displayed her Mexican roots and held her own among famous (important figure in mexicanismo) Mexican male artists: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.In December 1955 she died of a stroke in Mexico City.
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