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Maritza Morillas (born 1969) is a contemporary painter from Mexico. Her works are typified by dark imagery of death and decomposition. Her work also delves into social issues such as contemporary the food industry, with imagery of the preternatural and horrific techniques used in factory farming. She is also well known in Mexico for her work dealing with the deaths in Ciudad Juárez, the mass murder of young women along the U.S.-Mexico border. Morillas graduated from the school of artes plásticas at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Major influences on her work are Francisco de Goya and Arturo Rivera. She is currently a member of MujerArte A.C., a Mexican feminist art collective led by artist and social justice activist Yan Maria Castro. ==External links== *(Women Painters and the genocide of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico ) Page discussing the work of Morillas dealing with the murders of women in Ciduad Juarez on MujerArte A.C. website *(Juárez: Art Against Death ) Article by artist and cultural critic Monica Mayer about the place of Morillas and other contemporary Mexican feminist artists in the tradition of Latin American female activist artists, originally published in El Universal *(Maritza Morillas page on the MujerArte art collective website ) Picture of Morillas and samples of her work (in Spanish) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maritza Morillas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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