César Moro
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Born | Alfredo Quíspez-Asín Mas August 31, 1903 Lima, Peru |
Died | January 10, 1956 Lima, Peru | (aged 52)
Occupation | Writer, artist, teacher |
Period | 20th century |
Genre | Poetry, essays, painting, collage |
Literary movement | Surrealism |
Notable works | La tortuga ecuestre |
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César Moro (August 31,[1] 1903 – January 10, 1956) is the pseudonym of Alfredo Quíspez-Asín Mas, a Peruvian poet and painter. Most of his poetic works are written in French; he was the only Latin American poet included in the 1920s and '30s surrealist journals of André Breton and the first Latin American artist to join the surrealist group on his own initiative, as opposed to being recruited by Breton.[2]
Life and career
Moro moved to Paris on August 30, 1925, initially to pursue ballet dancing, but shortly after focused his artistic efforts on creating art and poetry. He participated in his first group exhibition at the Cabinet Maldoror in
Around 1926, Moro briefly adopted a more cubist style of painting and shifted away from depicting Peruvian scenes. This likely came as a "response to expectations of primitivism and nationally specific subject matter in Paris."
Moro returned to Lima in 1933 and attempted to establish himself as a leader of Surrealism in South America, following in the footsteps of César Vallejo and José Carlos Mariátegui who had both published analyses of Surrealism.[2] He produced art and literature while in Peru, established a museum, and taught art classes for the mentally ill at Hospital Larco Herrera. In 1935, he co-organized the first ever Surrealist Exposition in South America with Emilio Adolfo Westphalen at the Academy Alcedo in Lima.
In 1938 Moro was forced to flee
In 1948 Moro returned to Lima where he taught at the Alianza Francesa and the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado until his death in 1956.[3] Moro's friend André Coyné, a French poet and art critic, is credited with safeguarding and organizing Moro's works after his death.[5]
Works
Selected works:
- 1926: Pedestrian (used as the cover of the Surrealist Exposition of South America catalogue)[2]
- 1943: Le château de grisou
- 1944: Lettre d'amour (frontispiece by Alice Paalen (Rahon))[6]
- 1954: Trafalgar Square (illustrated by Remedios Varo)[7]
- 1957: La tortuga ecuestre y otros poemas
- 1973: Amour à mort
- 1987: L'ombre du paradisier et autres textes
References
- ^ "La creación de César Moro, o sobre cuándo nació realmente Alfredo Quíspez Asín". Párrafo 451. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Greet, Michele (2013). "César Moro's Transnational Surrealism". Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. 7: 19–51. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ a b c Osorio, Jennifer. "Finding aid for the César Moro papers, ca. 1925–1987, (bulk ca. 1925–1956)". Online Archive of California. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ a b Zamora, Rebecca (September 26, 2012). "The "Scandalous Life" of César Moro". The Getty Iris. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Bio: César Moro". Interlitq. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "The "Scandalous Life" of Cesar Moro". www.getty.edu. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Moro, César (1954). Trafalgar Square (in Spanish). Lima: Ediciones Tigrondine.
External links
- Tribute to César Moro in Revista Miríada
- English Translations of César Moro by Guillermo Parra at the blog Venepoetics
- César Moro papers, 1854–1997. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California