surrealismo

Maria Izquierdo, the instinct and the roots

(October 30, 1902, San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco – December 3, 1955, México City) María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez is remembered as the first Mexican painter to exhibit her paintings abroad. The show took place in 1930 at the Art Centre of New York; an undisputable achievement, but it was not the only one. María Izquierdo was an artist, a personality in Mexican culture with an attitude towards art and life. “She resembled a prehispanic goddess. A face of sun-dried…

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