Maruja Mallo
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Maruja Mallo
(b Vivero, nr Lugo, 6 Jan 1902; d Madrid, 6 Feb 1995). Spanish painter, active also in Argentina. She studied painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Madrid (1926). After a journey to the Canary Islands in 1927, her work was presented to the public by Jos? Ortega y Gasset and his Revista de Occidente. Her first exhibition firmly established her among the avant-garde. Through a grant from the Junta para Ampliaci?n de Estudios she travelled to Paris in 1932, where she came into contact with the Surrealists. She exhibited at the Galerie Pierre in 1933 and met Andr? Breton and Picasso. On her return to Spain she worked at the Escuela de Cer?mica designing plates. In 1937 she settled in Argentina, giving lectures there and in Montevideo, Chile and Bolivia. She exhibited in various Latin-American countries and in New York. She renewed contact with Spain in 1948 but did not return there permanently until 1965. She was awarded the gold medal for fine arts from the Ministry of Culture in 1982 and from the city of Madrid in 1990.
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Maruja Mallo
Maruja Mallo (5 January 1902 – 6 February 1995) was a Spanish painter.
She was born in Viveiro, Galicia, and studied arts in Madrid between 1922 and 1926, where she met many important artists, as she also did subsequently in Paris: Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miró, De Chirico, André Breton, Enrique Tábara, Xavier Zubiri and Paul Éluard among others. Her paintings of the 1920s represent urban entertainments and sports, composed in complex overlapping arrangements that express the dynamism of modern life. These works, such as La Verbena of 1927, combine sharply defined, smoothly modeled forms with bright colors. They show some influence of Magic realism, and look ahead to Pop art. In 1928 Ortega y Gasset organized her first exhibit, which was a success.
Her work became more surrealistic in the early 1930s, and she worked in ceramics during this time as well. Mallo left Spain for Buenos Aires in 1937.
She lived in several places until 1964 when she returned to Spain, where she died in 1995 in Madrid.
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