Margarita Azurdia

[2] In the 1960s, Azurdia publicly opposed neofigurativism (neofigurativismo), an art movement promoted by a group of male artists known as Grupo Vertebra, and was responsible for starting a new art movement known as new conceptual abstraction (nuevo abstraccionismo conceptual)[2] In 1962 Azurdia exhibited her first painting, a self-portrait.[3] The sculptures depict women carrying firearms, babies riding on crocodiles, and tigers transporting bananas, images reminiscent of the magic realism from Latin American literature.[1] Through this group, Azurdia explored the notions of ritual in everyday life, space, and time through the medium of dance.[2] She also presented her work in collective and individual shows in Mexico, the United States, France, and Central America.[1] After her death in 1998, her home in Guatemala City (located at 16-39 5th Avenue, zone 10) became a museum, the Museo Margarita Azurdia,[1] where many of her paintings, sculptures, and photographs are displayed.
Illustrated portrait of Margarita Azurdia by Elena Resko
Antigua, GuatemalaGuatemala City, GuatemalaGuatemalanEscuela Nacional de Artes Plásticasperformance artNational Museum of Modern ArtFaculty of Arts and DesignRodolfo Aguirre TinocoAbraham ÁngelRamón Alva de la CanalCarlos Alvarado LangLuis Arenal BastarAlberto BeltránÁngel BrachoCelia CalderónJulio CastellanosJosé Chávez MoradoJosé Clemente OrozcoMinerva CuevasFrancisco DosamantesFrancisco Eppens HelgueraManuel FelguérezGabriel Fernández LedesmaDemián FloresArturo García BustosAlfredo Guati RojoGabriel GuerraMaría IzquierdoJazzamoartIrving KriesbergJorge MarínAdolfo MexiacLuis Ortiz MonasterioRoberto MontenegroNicolás Moreno (artist)Rodolfo NietoLuis NishizawaGabriel OrozcoSandra PaniSergio PerazaMelchor PeredoAntonio PujolAlfredo Ramos MartínezAurora Reyes FloresAntonio M. RuízSebastián (sculptor)Luciano SpanoRufino TamayoShino WatabeAlfredo ZalceÁngel Zárraga