Aurora Reyes Flores

Aurora Reyes Flores (born September 9, 1908 in Hidalgo del Parral , † April 26, 1985 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican artist and the first female representative of Mexican muralism .

biography

Reyes was the daughter of the soldier León Reyes and Luisa Flores . Her grandfather was General Bernardo Reyes and her uncle the artist Alfonso Reyes . Shortly after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City, her parents sought refuge from political persecution in the anonymity of the big city. After the situation in the country had calmed down, she attended the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria at the age of 13 , later the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes until 1924 and exhibited for the first time in the Galería ARS in 1925 . She married the journalist Jorge Godoy , had their first son Héctro from him in 1926 and, shortly after separating from her husband in 1931, their second son Jorge . From 1927 she also taught art education in schools. From 1936 she was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and in the same year painted her famous first mural “Atentado a los Maestros Rurales” at the Centro Escolar Revolución . Between 1960 and 1972 she painted another four murals in the Auditorium of May 15 of the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación Nacional (SNTE). She painted her sixth mural until 1978 in the old “ Hernán Cortés ” house in the Coyoacán delegation . Reyes was a member of the Partido Comunista Mexicano and the Confederación Nacional Campesina .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erika Cervantes: La revolución pictórica de Aurora Reyes ( Memento of September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), CimacNoticias, 2003.
2. ↑ Dina Comisarenco Mirkin: Aurora Reyes's "Ataque a la Maestra Rural": The First Mural Created by a Mexican Female Artist (English), JSTOR, of 2005.