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13. März 2018 · Maria in her New York studio at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, 1940_1950. Maria Martins (1900-1973) or simply Maria, as Surrealism’s founder André Breton liked to call her, was a daring risk-taker in life and the arts. She skillfully juggled her roles as ambassador’s wife and mistress of none other than Marcel Duchamp for eight years.
Maria Martins in an interview with O Jornal, November 9, 1956. On March 22, 1943, Maria Martins opened her third solo exhibition, at the Valentine Gallery in New York. Maria: New Sculptures shared the gallery space with Mondrian: New Paintings. To Mondrian’s clear vertical and horizontal lines, then colorful and fragmented, Maria counterposed ...
Maria Martins was always a marginal artist within the Brazilian art world. Her works combined Western, and especially surrealist, influences – the result of her perpetually nomadic life – with Amazonian forms and legends, which at the time were seldom explored by her fellow Brazilian artists. Born to a wealthy family, M. Martins studied at a French school in Rio de Janeiro, and was at ...
16. Juni 2023 · Maria Martins in her New York Studio at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, c.1946. This insightful quote from Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins (1894–1973), is highly suggestive of what she strove for in her work, a sense of a shared understanding of human nature and its deepest motivations. Despite the downplaying of her importance, an ...
Maria Martins, Composio (10), c. 1948. Photo: Jaime Acioli. Maria Martins once said that she would like to be reincarnated as a stone or animal or flower, adding that it would be ‘tragically inhuman’ for there not to be a life after death. Having seen her retrospective, I’d say she would have been keen to come back as all of these things ...
Maria Martins (Brazil, 1894–1973) is a fundamental artist in the history of Brazilian modernism, in the panorama of international surrealism and in the global history of art in the 20 th century. She is known for her bronze sculptures, drawings and engravings depicting hybrid female figures, as well as Afro-Brazilian and Amerindian mythologies.
In 1998 he exhibited Maria Martins’ artworks. – Michael Taylor: Chief Curator Deputy Director for Art and Education of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He was the curator of the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés (2009) at the Philadelphia Museum and author of the catalogue.
