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Complete Article + Gallery of ImagesMexican, Izquierdo, painters, art, paintings, Mexico, Maria Izquierdo, Mexico City, exhibition, poet, Rivera, life, culture, nationalism, critics, York, influence, San, intimacy, government, vision, Monumento Artistico, friend, Muralists, Museum, Modern Art, Tamayo, Academy, church, village.Summary:
Maria Izquierdo 1902 - 1955 Monumento Artistico de la Nación One-hundred years after her birth on October 25, 2002, the Mexican painter, Maria Izquierdo was declared a Monumento Artistico de la Nación by Mexico City's National Commission for Arts and Culture.
With this honor she takes her rightful place among other great painters of her time - Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siquieros, Dr. Atl, and Frida Kahlo.
The Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, wrote that the day one writes the real history of Mexican painting of the twentieth century, the name of Maria Izquierdo will be a small but powerful center of magnetic radiation.
Her skillful handling of rich, luscious color and the masterful control she has of her personal vision were evident in an exhibition I saw recently at the Instituto Cultural Cabanas in Guadalajara.
Her work creates an intimacy that pulls you into the paintings and leaves you with a dreamy nostalgia and a subtle feeling of unrest.
She did not enter marriage willingly, and the role of wife and mother did nothing to alleviate the boredom she felt with her life.
A family move to Mexico City in 1923 gave Izquierdo her first opportunity to attend a school of painting and sculpture.
Under Tamayo she studied watercolor and gouache, and through Rivera's support, she was given her first important exhibition at the Galeria de Art Moderno in Mexico City in 1929.
Students were infuriated at the special attention Rivera gave her work at a student showing, and she was obliged to leave the school.
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