Maruja Mallo

Maruja Mallo (Ana María Gómez González, Viveiro, Protected content , Protected content one of the great Spanish artists of the 20th century and a leading figure of the Generation of '27, which included Rafael Alberti, Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, María Zambrano, Luis Buñuel, and Rosa Chacel, among others. She is also the most important representative of the group of artists who, for the first time, collectively presented a feminine worldview from a novel perspective: that of the modern, active, free, and professional woman. Mallo was a visionary artist who managed to reflect the concerns of her time and anticipate many of today's. The universality of human aspirations, beyond economic, racial or gender differences, the consideration of the world as an interrelated ecological system and the power of art to reveal unknown aspects of reality are fundamental axes of his work.