Banishment and gender: conditions and influences of Mexican exile in Spanish artists after the Civil War

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to a poorly explored line of research: that one which has as its object of study the life and work of women artists exiled in Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The experience of exile will influence these women in many different ways, affecting both their identity’s construction in the country of arrival and their artistic production. Although History of Art’s work should be to recover their testimonies, this discipline has tended to forget them, even more than their male colleagues. For that reason, we will analyze in this article some of the exile implications on female gender and we will study the different influences and consequences of the migration that affected these artists at their technical level, in their pictorial base, their represented themes and their iconographies.