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7/9/2023 3:41 am
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Despite growing up in poverty and neglect, Reyes achieved great success in her life. She lived with her sister, her mother and another boy in a single room until her mother left the family and Emma Reyesfive years old.
A convent took in the Reyes sisters, but life didn’t get any easier the girls were kept illiterate and Reyes reported that she spent ten hours a day embroidering, tailoring and washing clothes.
After spending about 15 years here, she stole the keys to the monastery door and fled into the world.
She has traveled and lived in many different places Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Jerusalem, Washington, Rome, Paris creating art while exploring the world. In the 1940s he spent a lot of time in Paris and Buenos Aires and studied with the painter André Lhote.
Reyes came to attention in 1947 after entering an international art competition in Argentina. She spent some time in Mexico in the 1950s studying with the muralist Diego Rivera, and spent the 1960s between Israel and Italy.
The painter eventually settled in France, where she was praised for her works depicting her culture and became known as “Big Mama” by other Latin American artists. The theme was deliberately kept simple and typically included people, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and animalhuman hybrids.
Many people who knew Reyes felt that she should write a book and tell the stories of her childhood. She claimed she couldn’t because it was difficult to organize her thoughts and because she had never received any formal language training.
The historian Germán Arciniegas found a solution by asking Reyes to write him letters about his childhood. Between 1969 and 1997, Reyes wrote 23 letters that make up the book Emma Reyes.
She didn’t want spelling and grammatical errors corrected in the memoir because she was proud of it; Each mistake was a reminder of the childhood she experienced. Reyes edited the book herself, but it was published in 2012 after her death, so she didn’t see it become a worldwide success to rave reviews.
Happy Birthday Emma ReyesThank you for sharing your stories and creations with the world.
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