1. Maria Dolores Velazquez Rivas, better known as "Lola" Cueto was a Mexican painter, printmaker, puppet designer and puppeteer.
21 Facts About Lola Cueto
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Lola Cueto is best known for her work in children's theater, creating sets, puppets and theatre companies performing pieces for educational purposes.
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Lola Cueto was born Maria Dolores Velazquez Rivas in Azcapotzalco on March 2,1897, to Juan Velazquez and Ana Maria Rivas.
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Lola Cueto entered the Academy of San Carlos when she was 12 years old.
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Lola Cueto was one of the academy's first female students, breaking social norms for women at the time.
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Lola Cueto was part of a group of students that included David Alfaro Siqueiros and Andres Audifred, which rebelled against the traditional teaching methods of the academy.
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Lola Cueto died on January 24,1978, in Mexico City.
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Lola Cueto was one a few working women artists in Mexico in the early twentieth century, at a time when the field was dominated by men.
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Lola Cueto's contemporaries include Maria Izquierdo, Olga Costa and Helen Escobedo.
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Lola Cueto is best known for her work in theatre, especially with puppets and marionettes for children.
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German had the idea to create marionettes and puppets when the couple lived in Paris, but it was Lola Cueto who pursued it.
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Lola Cueto founded the Rin Rin, El Nahual and El Colorin theatre companies which performed educational sketches in urban and rural areas.
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Lola Cueto was invited, and funding for her puppetry was provided.
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Lola Cueto was a founding member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, founded in her home.
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Lola Cueto did not have many exhibitions of her work, but it was extensively written about by critics Paul Westheim and artist Jean Charlot.
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Charlot was impressed by her work after dropping in on a chance visit, back when Lola Cueto rented an apartment out to Diego Rivera right next door.
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Lola Cueto described the panels of embroidery to be both individual and discrete.
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Lola Cueto is best known for her work in children's theatre, especially that aimed at basic literacy.
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Lola Cueto's career included weaving, watercolors, drawings, graphic work, oils, gouache, along with the design of marionettes, puppets, theatre sets and traditional Mexican toys.
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The fact that Lola Cueto opted to focus on handcrafts was the true surprise.
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Lola Cueto created a number of tapestries with religious themes such as primitive Christ and Virgin Mary images, rural altars as well as depicting indigenous people.