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Gap analysis

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Aurora Reyes Flores


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The Wikipedia page for the muralist Aurora Reyes Flores is very limited, considering her influence as one of the first female artists during the rise of Mexican muralism. While the page does address key notes from her life (her political leanings, her studies, and the males associated with her during her life), it's sparse in terms of the important events in her life, her notable works, and a great bulk of her career. The gap was fairly easy to identify, considering there isn't even an image of herself in the sidebar of her basic facts, as well as the fact that within the article itself it is stated that "she died nearly forgotten."


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Reyes was the daughter of the soldier León Reyes and his wife Luisa Flores. Her grandfather was general Bernardo Reyes, and her uncle Alfonso Reyes was also a well-known writer and philosopher.[1] Shortly after the outbreak of the revolution, due to the political persecution, her family fled to Mexico City. After the situation calmed down, Reyes joined the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria at the age of 13 years. She was expelled due to the prefect of the school accusing Reyes of holding illicit conversations with Diego Rivera and that her preference for being around boys turned her into a "libertine and a potential gang leader" and the physical brawl that ensued from those accusations. Afterward she visited the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes until 1924. She married the journalist Jorge Godoy, gave birth to her son Héctro in 1926, and shortly after the divorce of her husband in 1931, she bore her second son Jorge. '''In 1927, she entered a career in teaching that lasted 37 years, during which she taught at the elementary level with an emphasis on art. Her passion for teaching was ever-present in both the classroom and in her art, which channeled the fight of herself and her colleagues.  As a union leader, she gave all of her support to women for their right to vote and holding popular electorate positions. "I am completely primitive and savage. I love liberty above all," she would frequently say, and she was loyal to that saying until her death.'''

She had a love interest in Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén.[1]

'''Reyes died on the 26th of April, 1985, in Mexico City. Her ashes were spread along the roots of the magnolia tree that she had planted many years before in the garden of her house. On its trunk, her son, actor Hector Godoy, had a metal plaque made with a few of his mother's verses written on it and placed. It reads "Today, white and luminous,/you were born Yololxochitl:/magnum flower of flowers./The moon is your diadem encrusted in diamonds./Today, white and luminous,/you were born Yololxochitl," Yololxochitl being the Nahuatl name for magnolia. ''' Despite her artistic success and outspoken personality, she died nearly forgotten.


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