104 години от рождението на Ема Рейес с Гугъл! Google Doodle . Днешната драскулка е в чест на колумбийската художничка Ема Рейес, която е смятана за един от най-значимите живописци и разказвачи на истории в Латинска Америка през двадесети век.Emma Reyes (July 9, 1919 – July 12, 2003) was a realism painter and writer from Bogota, Colombia. Reyes was considered the "godmother" of Latin American art for the portrayals of her life struggles in her paintings. She was encouraged to write by the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Those who knew her paintings described them as very old and very few.[1]
Reyes is known for her book The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir.
Biography
Emma Reyes was born in 1919 in Bogota. When she was about 6 or 7 years old, her mother abandoned her. Reyes and her sister were sent to a convent. [2] While at the convent, Reyes was not allowed to socialize with the outside world.
At age 19, Reyes was able to leave the convent. She got married and had a child. Her child was later killed during a home invasion. Reyes soon fled to Paris to begin here her life of painting.[2] In 1943 she received a scholarship to study in Paris.[3]
Reyes died on July 12, 2003 at age 84.
Career
Much of Reyes' artwork draws on her life and the obstacles that she faced living in poverty. Despite the cruelty Reyes experienced in her childhood, she still tried to send positive messages through her works by making colorful images associated with animals and plants.
Reyes never received an education and was considered "illiterate." Nevertheless, she wrote letters and put them together as a book. She was mainly known for her writing rather than her paintings.[4]
Works
Many of Reyes' paintings were unnamed. Instead, they were distinguished by what they represented. Most of her early works was a representation of the life she had left behind.
"Unknown (Goat)" Reyes utilized vibrant colors and painted mainly plants and animals. Her goal was to use vibrant colors in order to represent her personality. Her paintings such as this one, was done by color pencils and a board. The background of this painting is a pastel yellow with pastel green grass while there's a white cow drinking milk from a blue bucket.
"Figurine" This painting portrays a human figure built from garbage that implies children's imagination, but then destroyed by the evil in this world.[5]
"Burning Villages" In this painting Reyes intended to show loneliness in a town that's corrupted surrounded by economy issues, cruelty, and abandonment. It represents the struggle Reyes and her sister faced.[5]
Most of Emma Reyes works are held in the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America.[6] Her work is also preserved at the Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord.[7]
Publications
Before publishing her book The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir, Reyes didn't want any changes in her grammar. Since she didn't get an education, the errors in her writing represent the struggle she went through writing the book and in addition relating to the struggles she survived in her childhood such as poverty. The book consist of 23 letters as the only format she was capable of writing. The dates of the letters start from 1969- 1997.[3] It was known that Reyes had a difficult time organizing her thoughts when it came to writing. Luckily, her solution was writing letters. The first letter of the book opens up with the most obvious, her childhood from there leading to her life.[3]
Emma Reyes's 104th Birthday
Today’s Doodle celebrates Colombian artist, painter, storyteller, and writer Emma Reyes. On this day in 1919, Reyes was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
Despite growing up facing poverty and neglect, Reyes achieved great success in her life. She lived with her sister, mother, and another young boy in a single room until her mother abandoned the family and five-year-old Emma Reyes. A convent took in the Reyes sisters, but life didn’t get easier — the girls were kept illiterate, and Reyes reported doing embroidery, tailoring, and laundry for 10 hours a day. After spending about 15 years here, she stole the keys to the convent door and escaped into the world.
She traveled and lived in many different places — Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Jerusalem, Washington, Rome, Paris — creating art as she explored the world. In the 1940s, she spent a lot of time in Paris and Buenos Aires, learning from painter André Lhote. Reyes started to gain attention in 1947 after participating in an international art contest in Argentina. She spent time in Mexico in the 1950s, studying with muralist Diego Rivera, and spent the ’60s between Israel and Italy. The painter eventually settled in France, where she was praised for her works depicting her culture and became known as “mama grande” to other Latin American artists. Her subject matter was intentionally simple, often featuring people, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and human-animal hybrids.
Many people who knew Reyes told her she should write a book and tell the stories of her childhood. She claimed she couldn’t because it was hard to organize her thoughts, and she never received formal language education. Historian Germán Arciniegas found a solution by asking Reyes to write letters about her childhood to him. Between 1969 and 1997, Reyes wrote 23 letters that make up The Book of Emma Reyes. She didn’t want spelling and grammar mistakes in the memoir corrected because she was proud of them; every error was a reminder of the childhood she survived. Reyes herself edited the book, but it was published in 2012 after she passed away, so she didn’t get to see it become a worldwide success with glowing reviews.
Happy birthday Emma Reyes, thank you for sharing your stories and creations with the world.
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