María Izquierdo: the Mexican painter who claimed women in art

His skills, then unpublished for an openly macho society where art was also an activity that women were commonly excluded, were poorly received by students and María Izquierdo He was commonly violated by his classmates, especially after during a sample in 1929, Diego Rivera (then director of the National School of Fine Arts) designated his work as the one with the greatest projection and talent.

Besides, María Izquierdo He attended the courses of Germán Gedovius, pioneer of modern painting in Mexico and teacher of Saturnino Herrán or Diego Rivera himself, who noticed the talent of the Jalisco painter above his male counterparts and considered that María Izquierdo It did not require more to the academy given its technical conditions.

María Izquierdo's exhibition at Art Center

After exposing together with his then partner Rufino Tamayo at the end of 1930, María Izquierdo opened its first international sample in the Art Center New Yorkbecoming the first Mexican artist to expose his works abroad.

The exhibition consisted of 14 works and marked the take -off of his career as Painterat that time influenced by Tamayo, but with a deep sense of gender that would later explode to the fullest.

Maria Izquierdo and Feminism

Although all of their life and work have not yet been analyzed from perspective and gender studies, María Izquierdo patent his deep interest in reverse the condition of women in the Post -revolutionary Mexico.