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[ Antonio C. Ixtamer ] [ Domingo Garcia Criado ] [ Diego Isaias Hernandez Mendez ] [ Emilio Gonzalez Morales ] [ Jose Antonio Gonzalez ] [ Juan Fermin Gonzalez Morales ] [ Lorenzo Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Maria Elena Curruchiche ] [ Maria Teodora Mendez ] [ Mariano Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Matias Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Mario Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Miguel Angel Sunu ] [ Paula Nicho Cumes ] [ Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Samuel Cumes Pop ] [ Rafael Gonzalez y Gonzalez ] [ Juan Sisay ] [ Vicenta Puzul ]
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| In 1991 faced with the expenses of a growing
family, Matias Gonzalez Chavajay. He taught his wife Maria
Teodora how to paint. Maria Teodora was only the second
Tz’utuhil Mayan woman to take up painting, the first being her
sister-in-law Vicenta Puzul de Gonzalez. Unlike Vicenta who
sometimes helped her husband and sometimes painted on her own,
Maria Teodora ended up working with her husband to do commercial
painting for the tourists to be sold in the galleries in
Santiago Atitlán. They set up a production line where one person
would do the backgrounds, one the people etc. This way they
quickly produced enough paintings to make it worthwhile
financially. By 2002 they had a three story house of their own,
and both Matias and Maria Teodora decided she should begin
painting on her own. Her paintings often have themes of special
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En 1991, encarando los gastos de una familia en
crecimiento, Matías González enseñó a su esposa María Teodora
como pintar. María Teodora fue la segunda mujer maya tz’utuhil
en dedicarse a la pintura, siendo la primera, su cuñada Vicenta
Puzul de González. A diferencia de Vicenta que a veces ayudaba a
su esposo y a veces pintaba sola, María Teodora terminó
trabajando con su esposo pintando comercialmente para las
galerías turísticas de Santiago Atitlán. Ellos instalaron una
línea de producción en la cual uno de ellos pintaría los fondos
y el otro las figuras, etc. Trabajando juntos ellos produjeron
rápidamente suficientes pinturas para hacer esto viable
económicamente. En el 2002 ellos tenían su propia casa de tres
niveles y decidieron que María Teodora debería empezar a pintar
sola. Las pinturas de María Teodora frecuentemente contienen
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Row 1
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Vendedoras de Flores (Flower Sellers), 2007, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-004 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Convivio Familiar (Family Living Together), 2008, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-005 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Concierto Chichicastenango (Concert in Chichicastenango), 2003, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-002 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez: El
Baile de la Cofradía, Todos Santos (Dance of the Cofradía,
Todos Santos), 2007, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-007 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez: A
Venta de Flores (Going to Sell Flowers), 2008, 16" x 20". cat.
MT-011 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez: Baile
de Venado (Deer Dance), 1992, 13" x 15". cat.
MT-001 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Desgranando Maiz (Removing the Kernels of Corn from the Cob), 2007, 20" x 25". cat.
MT-008 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Cortadores de Naranjas (Orange Pickers), 2008, 20" x 25". cat.
MT-010 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Mercado bajo Arbol (Market Under a Tree), 2008, 20" x 25". cat.
MT-012 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez:
Castigo Maya de Mujeres, Nahualá (Punishment of Women,
Nahualá), 2007, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-006 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez: Las
Bolitas, Nahualá (Intoxicated Women, Nahuala), 2007, 20" x 24". cat.
MT-009 |
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Maria Teodora Mendez de Gonzalez: Los
Violadores de Mujeres (Violators of Women), 2007, 16" x 20". cat.
MT-003 |
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[ Antonio C. Ixtamer ] [ Domingo Garcia Criado ] [ Diego Isaias Hernandez Mendez ] [ Emilio Gonzalez Morales ] [ Jose Antonio Gonzalez ] [ Juan Fermin Gonzalez Morales ] [ Lorenzo Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Maria Elena Curruchiche ] [ Maria Teodora Mendez ] [ Mariano Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Matias Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Mario Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Miguel Angel Sunu ] [ Paula Nicho Cumes ] [ Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay ] [ Samuel Cumes Pop ] [ Rafael Gonzalez y Gonzalez ] [ Juan Sisay ] [ Vicenta Puzul ]
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To contact us write: Arte Maya Tz'utuhil, P.O. Box 40391, San
Francisco, CA 94140. Telephone: (415) 282-7654.
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All paintings and photographs Copyright © 1988–2015 Arte Maya Tz'utuhil
Todas pinturas y fotografías son Derechos Reservados © 1988–2015 Arte Maya Tz'utuhil
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