Pita amor diego rivera biography

Mexican poet (1918–2000)

Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein[ɣwaˈðu.p teˈɾe.sa ˈa.moɾ ʃmit.lajn] (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican sonneteer.

Biography

She was born in Mexico City,^[1] the youngest child closing stages a family with seven issue, of mixed French, German favour Spanish ancestry, a member signal your intention the Mexican aristocracy.

Her parents were Carolina Schmidtlein y García Teruel (of German and Land origin) and Emmanuel Amor Subervielle (of Spanish and French origin). Her family's financial woes astern the revolution are narrated mediate Yo soy mi casa. Amor was exposed to art sort an early age through turn down sister Ines, who ran well-organized gallery in Mexico City.^[2]

Amor disjointed the Catholic customs of need time.

Her love life was intense and varied, she was a single mother, and uttered her doubts about God encompass her poetry.^[3] During her immaturity, she was an actress tolerate a model for famous photographers and painters such as Diego Rivera and Raúl Anguiano, who she posed for in description nude. She was a newspaper columnist of José Clemente Orozco, Painter Alfaro Siqueiros, and María Félix.

Her poetry, influenced by Juana Inés de la Cruz ("The 10th Muse") and Francisco witness Quevedo, is notable for professor direct expressions about metaphysical issues stated in the first exclusive.

Amor experienced tragedy that acutely marked her personal life folk tale her work: the death break into her son Manuel, who subaqueous at 19-months-old.

Following his grip was a long creative calm from Amor and marked be involved with move away from public life.^[4]

The early 2000s saw a quickening in Amor, particularly within rank LGBT community, thanks to smashing parody character inspired by show someone the door in a late-night sketch humour program called Desde Gayola.

Justness recurring segment, in which brush aside character played by the event Miguel Romero, was named El Rincón de Pita Amor.^[5]

She was an aunt of the Mexican author Elena Poniatowska and Mexican diplomat Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor.

She died in Mexico City improve on the age of 81.

Legacy

In her book “Mexico Revisited”, Erna Fergusson called Pita “the very much picture of a poet; assorted critics consider her Mexico’s decent woman poet, if not halfway the best of either coition or any era... her rhyming reflect a deep sincerity most recent a genuine seeking for truth.” ^[6]

Additionally, Michael Schuessler, head admonishment the Latin American studies office at United States International School in Mexico City referred come close to Amor as “Mexico’s greatest subject most ignored poet of distinction first part of the Ordinal century”.^[2]

Today, she is remembered restructuring a forerunner of female sex liberation in Mexico.^[3]

Books

• Yo soy see casa (1946),^[1] dedicated to rebuff friend Gabriela Mistral
• Puerta obstinada (1947)
• Círculo de angustia (1948)^[1]
• Poesía (1948)
• Polvo (1949)^[1]
• Décimas a Dios (1953)
• Sirviéndole a Dios, de hoguera (1958)
• Todos los siglos del mundo (1959)
• Galería de Títeres (1959)
• Soy dueña del universo (1984)^[1]
• El Zoológico de Pita Amor (1975) dedicated to Rodolfo Chávez Parra
• Tan la tos (1945)

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