Maruxa

Mallo's Life

BOOKLET

Name: ............
Maruxa Mallo is born in Viveiro. She is born When she is twenty, she goes to Madrid to
at the beginning of the XX century, in 1902, study Art. There she meets important people
and she dies at the end of it, in 1995. She of the Generation of '27. It is an influential
has got thirteen brothers and sisters. Her group of poets who mixes art and poetry.
father is from Madrid. Some artists are Rafael Alberti, Federico
Her mother is from Vigo. García Lorca, María Zambrano, Buñuel or
She lives in Viveiro until Dalí. Her paintings start to be surrealistic.
she is three years old. Her They represent
father has to change his popular festivals
job very often, so all the full of happiness
family lives in many and colours.
different places like Tui,
Verín, Conrcubión, Xixón,
Madrid and Avilés.

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Some years later, Maruxa starts to worry After France, she comes back to Spain. She
about the situation in Spain. She travels is interested in order and geometry, as you
around Madrid, and starts to paint using can see in her paintings. But in nineteen
sadder colours, like black, grey and white. thirty-seven, when she is thirty-five, there
In nineteen is a horrible
thirty-one, civil war in
she goes to Spain. It is
Paris to not a good
study. In time in
Paris, here. She
everybody has to go to
loves her sad and powerful paintings. She is Argentina.
the second Spanish artist who exposes
there, after Pablo Picasso.

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In Argentina, she is with more Galician
intellectuals, like Luis Seone, Rafael Dieste When she is sixty-three she comes back to
and Lorenzo Varela. She is very happy and Madrid. After the war, she feels alone
works a lot: she writes, she paints, she gives because many friends are not there. People
speeches and travels. She paints her dont't understand her. She is an artist, and
extraordinary heads and she is eccentric:
pictures with elements of she walks wearing
the sea, like seaweed, only a coat or
starsfish, shells, crabs... she rides on a
bicycle inside a
church.

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Late in her life, when she is eighty, people
start to see how important this little woman
is. She dies in nineteen ninety-five.
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