Maruja mallo biography of george

As Ernst H. Gombrich said “There is no history of art but the history of artists” and that of the painter Maruja Mallo, has yet to be written, remaining unjustifiably in the shadows for too long, She is one of the most generous painters in imagination and freshness, whose art never stopped evolving.

The story of Maruja Mallo: surrealist painter and muse

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Brief biography of Maruja Mallo

Maruja Mallo was born in Vivero (Lugo) in 1902.

Maruja mallo biography of george

In 1922 she moved with her family to Madrid. She studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where she meets Salvador Dalí, who introduces her to the environment of surrealism and of the Generation of ’27, of whom it was one of the great exponents.

Illustrates some works by Rafael Alberti, such as “La pájara pinta”. In 1927 she met Ortega y Gasset and collaborated as an illustrator in the “Revista de Occident”.

His first individual exhibition was held in the halls of said publication with great success.

In the 1930s he tra