User:Rojasandrea/Rocio Maldonado/ErickPT007602693 Peer Review

Rocío Maldonado was born in Pucallpa, Perú in 1951. She was able to establish a career and rise into the art world in the 1980s during the Neo-Mexicanism movement. Her works are a depiction of feminist concerns that challenge cultural ideals on womanhood. Often times her work is compared to that of Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo and Norma Bessouet. Maldonado’s works have been exhibited all over the world in California, Spain, Mexico, Australia, and New York. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is the permanent home to a some of her works.

Life and Education[edit]
Rocío Maldonado was the eldest child of elven children. She discovered her interest in art at the early age of ten, her father was not a big supporter of her love for art or her aspirations to pursue art as a career, but her mother was. At the age of 12, she is enrolled at the Instituto de Bellas Artes y Educación (INBA) in Nayarit. She then moves on to study Interior Design at the Women’s University of Guadalajara. At the age of 24, she continues her formal education in the arts at La Esmeralda Art School in Mexico City. At this point Maldonado still craves and seeks more knowledge at the National Art School in Xochimilco.

In her quest to perfect her techniques and finding her style, Rocío Maldonado moves to Stockholm, Sweden and resides there for about eight years. She continues to experiment and work there, in Sweden she begins to draw influence by figurative art while at community college, Konstskolan Basis. Once again, she packs up and travels to India then Israel and in 2010 she has another prolonged stay in Barcelona, Spain. In Spain, she again goes back to school, from 2011-2014 she is at Escola Massana and from 2014-2017 she is at Artes Aplicadas al Muro. Today she lives in Sant Cugat del Vallés, Spain and produces work out of her personal workshop in Mercantic.

Art Style[edit]
Maldonado’s artistic style changed throughout the years; she began painting desert landscapes with vibrant colors some of her early work is similar to Neo-Expressionist artworks with the addition of Mexican culture subject matter. Ultimately the themes addressed in her artworks fit into the art movement of the 1980s Neo-Mexican movement which shows a variety of Mexican beliefs throughout a variety of artistic depictions during this time. By 1995, she moves to Lima, Perú and starts to explore new techniques. Maldonado’s prominent subject matter is the female which can also categorize he works as Feminist art, she uses the female body to make social and political commentary as well to address questions within her own culture. Her reoccurring use of the female body also shows her personal concerns with how society views women and how society treats women. Many of her works play with the idea of female beauty and their unattainable standards.

Maldonado works with a couple different mediums, she is well-known for the use of papier-mâché dolls, wood, paint, gesso wax and fabric. The palette she commonly uses other than black and white are ochre, to resemble earth, and red, to resemble blood, the two colors together in her work are symbolic of “corporeality and spirituality.”

Las Dos Hermanas (The Two Sisters), 1986[edit]
Maldonados work Las Dos Hermanas is a depiction of five objects a doll, flower vase with white lilies, a human heart, one single red rose, and a white classical sculptural head. The title of the painting suggest that you are looking at a depiction of two sisters but what the viewer has before them instead is doll with human-sized portions and the sculptural head which is supposed to be Aphrodite the Greek goddess of love. The collocation of these two images is meant to raise the questions of “hierarchies of race, standards of beauty…the sacred and profane, purity and sexuality.” The use of the doll also conveys the idea of societal ideas of women having no autonomy only being deemed as objects of manipulation.

Éctasis de Santa Teresa (Ecstasy of Saint Theresa), 1989[edit]
In the work Éctasis de Santa Teresa, Maldonado depicts a version of Bernini’s sculpture, she paints only her head to emphasize her expression. Framing the depiction of Theresa’s head and face Maldonado also illustrated male torsos in the same classical fashion. Maldonado’s Theresa is “more woman than saint," she plays with the idea of women being dominated by both sacred and profane love and with the eroticism led by the male gaze.

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