Selected artists include: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo; Georgia O’Keeffe, known as the “Mother of American Modernism,” and Mary Leonora Carrington, UK-born surrealist painter
Teacher Patrizia Gea and the students of the Barriomar 74 school in Murcia organized an artistic activity on the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The main idea is to paint seven murals dedicated to female artists, all important in history, with the aim of justifying the importance of the role of women, both in art and in any other field.
On Wednesday the 23rd the young pupils are in charge of painting a mural and each of the six lower classes will paint another to take them out on Friday 25 November and tour Murcia in a kind of silent march.
In silence and without banners, but with words about peace, tolerance, equality, respect and solidarity, written on visible parts of the students. “It is an ephemeral exhibition and a way to show that barriers can be broken through art and that the idea of being a marginal center or being in a marginal neighborhood can be overcome,” explains the teacher and organizer of this activity.
Among the selected artists are: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter, whose work revolves thematically around her biography and her own suffering; self-portraits are the most common works among her more than 150 paintings; Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), artist known as the “Mother of American Modernism” and for her paintings of flowers, New York skyscrapers; Mary Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a surrealist painter, born in the United Kingdom and died in Mexico; Maruja Mallo (1902-1995), Spanish surrealist painter considered an artist of the 1927 generation, within the so-called Spanish interior avant-garde; and Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish painter who became famous in Europe and the United States for her Art Deco-style portraits and nudes.
Source: La Verdad
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