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A 6 page paper which examines how this maverick 20th century painter maintained her integrity as a master female Mexican easel painter despite the male Mexican modernists influences and sexist attitudes which excluded her from mural making and from uniform ideology. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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This was true not only of the social mainstream but this gender prejudice also extended to the most liberal elements of culture, the artistic community. Mexico during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was no different. The art world was comprised of upper-class male painters, sculptors and muralists who had no intention of making room for
any females who were bold enough to tread upon that which they considered their sacred territory. However, this did not deter Maria Izquierdo. Her amazing life and career
was forged by her fervent desire to defy patriarchal convention and achieve recognition as a master easel painter. Her single-minded determination is particularly impressive, considering that the artistic modernism
of the time was completely male dominated, and the sexist attitudes which continued to control all aspects of Mexican culture excluded her both from mural painting as well as the
uniform ideology which was articulated by and for men only. Izquierdo was born in 1906 to a working-class family situated in Guadalajaras tiny village of San Juan de los Lagos,
Jalisco (Farris 149; Stewart 91). As did other females of the time, Izquierdo married at 14, and gave birth to three children (Farris 149). However, maintaining home and
hearth did not provide sufficient stimulus for a passionate woman like Maria Izquierdo. She had always gravitated toward the arts, and by 1923, she and her husband separated and
she relocated to the center of aesthetic activity, Mexico City (Farris 149). She began her studies at the School of the Plastic arts, first concentrating on sculpture and painting
before shifting to sketching and painting at the Academy of San Carlos (Farris 149; Stewart 91). This was the early 1920s, a time of considerable political and social turmoil
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