Maruja Mallo
Maruja Mallo (born January 5, 1902 in Viveiro , Lugo province , † February 6, 1995 in Madrid ) was a Galician-Spanish painter of surrealism.
life and work
Mallo studied in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando from 1922 to 1926 and in 1928 Ortega y Gasset organized a first exhibition of her pictures, painted in the style of Magical Realism and New Objectivity, in the Madrid office of the Revista de Ocidente magazine . She got to know Salvador Dalí , the writer García Lorca and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel and moved in the circle of writers of the Generación del 27 . Mallo traveled regularly to Paris from 1932 and met Paul Éluard , Joan Miró , Giorgio de Chirico , Ernst and René Magritte and joined the avant-garde "School of Vallecas" by Benjamin Palencia and Alberto Sánchez . When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she fled to Buenos Aires in 1936 , where she painted portraits of women and published her first book on Spanish sculpture in 1939. She traveled to Uruguay , Bolivia and with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on Easter Island. In New York she met Andy Warhol . In 1965 she returned to Madrid. In 1990 Mallo received the gold medal from Madrid and in 1991 the gold medal from the Xunta de Galicia. In 1995, shortly before her death, she received the "Medal for Merit of Fine Arts" and the "National Prize for Plastic Arts".
Works
- La verbena. (1927)
- La kermesse. (1928)
- Canto de las espigas. (1929)
- La huella. (1929)
- Antro de Fosiles. (1930)
- Tierra y excrementos. (1932)
- Sorpresa en el trigo. (1936)
- Figuras. (1937)
- Cabeza de mujer. (1941)
- Máscaras. (1942)
- Las naturalezas vivas series. (1942)
- El racimo de uvas. (1944)
- Oro. (1951)
- Agol. (1969)
- Geonauta. (1975)
- Selvatro. (1979)
- Concorde. (1979)
- Máscara tres-veinte. (1979)
- Airagu. (1979)
- Acróbatas macro and microcosmos. (1981)
- Acróbatas. (1981)
- Protozaorios. (1981)
- Panteo. (1982)
- Acróbata. (1982)
- Protoesquema. (1982)
- Razas. (1982)
- Viajeros del eter. (1982)
literature
- Josefina González Cubero: Photographs of Theater that Could Not Be. Maruja Mallo's Stage Designs. AA. VV., Dramatic Architectures. Places of drama - Drama for places. CEAA, postage 2014.
Web links
- Maruja Mallo on artnet
- Video documentation about Maruja Mallo
- The painter Maruja Mallo
- Important women from Spain
- Maruja Mallo, the Spanish surrealist
- Conference paper
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mallo, Maruja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ana María Gómez González |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Galician-Spanish painter of surrealism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viveiro , Lugo |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1995 |
| Place of death | Madrid |