This Sunday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 104th birthday of iconic Colombian artist Emma Reyes
Emma Reyes was a Colombian artist and is honored this Sunday by the Doodle by Google. Painter, storyteller and writer, Reyes is considered one of the most iconic Latin American artists of the 20th century.
Who was Emma Reyes?
Born on July 9, 1919 in Bogota, Colombia, Emma Reyes is considered the “great mother” of Latin American art and has become famous for having told her own story in her paintings: that of a woman born and raised in a poor barrio of the Colombian capital.
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Reyes lived with her mother, sister, and another boy in a one-room apartment until her mother abandoned her daughters. At the time, Reyes was only five years old, and after his mother’s disappearance, he ended up spending most of his life in a convent.
While with the nuns, Reyes remained cloistered and could neither study nor socialize with the outside world, spending her days doing manual labor, sewing and washing clothes for 10 hours a day.
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At 19 Reyes stole the convent keys to escape and went on to live in different cities in various parts of the country, such as Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Washington and Paris, where he became involved in the local art scene.
In the 1940s he won a scholarship and learned to paint with the help of the Frenchman André Lhote. In the 1950s he went to Mexico and studied with the iconic Mexican artist Diego Rivera. After spending the next decade living between Israel and Italy, she settled in France, where she finally gained recognition for her artistic work.
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From illiterate to writer
Despite not having received a formal education, Reyes also became famous for recording her poor childhood in Colombia in 23 letters written between 1969 and 1997 and addressed to her friend, writer and historian Germán Arciniegas, who showed the letters to none other than to the legendary Colombian author Gabriel GarcÃa Marquez. With encouragement from both, Emma Reyes continued to write and her letters became the book Correspondence memories (Emma Reyes’ book in the original), released in 2012.
Despite so much effort, publishers were slow to see the value in the work and Reyes could not see his creation come to life, as he passed away on July 12, 2003.
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