#María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca

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1- María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin

2- Nahui Olin, Self-portrait as a Student in Paris, undated, oil on cardboard, 102 x 76 cm, private collection

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Dr. Atl - Carmen Mondragón (Nahui Olin), ca. 1922

Nahui Olin was born María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca in Mexico City, the fifth of eight children in a wealthy military family. She began writing poetry and prose while living in France, between the ages of four and twelve. In 1914, she became part of Parisian artistic circles when she returned to live in Paris, after she married Mexican diplomat and painter, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1891-1971) in 1913. The couple returned to Mexico in 1921 and remained in an open relationship until 1922. In 1921 she began a long-term relationship with the political activist and painter Gerardo Murillo (1865-1964), better known as Dr. Atl (the Nahuatl word for “water”). Also inspired by post-revolutionary desires to publicly assert connections to indigenous culture and past, C. Mondragón Valseca changed her name to Nahui Olin in 1922, a Nahuatl reference to renewal and the sun’s force behind the cyclic rhythm of the heavens, a symbol of earthquakes and change. (source)

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Dr Atl, Nahui Olin, c. 1922

Nahui Olin (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, July 8, 1893-January 23, 1978, artist & poet)

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Edward Weston, “Nahui Olín,” 1923,

María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin, was a Mexican painter, poet, and artist's model.

Gelatin silver print,

Dimensions9 × 6 15/16" (22.9 × 17.7 cm)

Courtesy: MoMa

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Nahui Olin (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca) (Mexican, 1893–1978). Self portrait (1927).

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María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca (also known as Nahui Olin), Mexican painter, poet and art’s model. Mexico City, 1925.

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Carmen Mondragón (1893-1978)

Una de las mujeres más bellas y transgresoras de su tiempo'. Pintora, poeta y activista mexicana nacida en Tacubaya, Ciudad de México, con el nombre de "María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca", también conocida como "Nahui Ollin".

Sus padres fueron el General Manuel Mondragón (1859-1922) y Mercedes Valseca. Se cas�� con Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1896-1971) en 1913, se separaron en 1922. Murió en su casa natal, Tacubaya, Ciudad de México, en 1978, a los 85 años.

Carmen rompió y cuestionó varias condutas y reglas sociales a pesar de pertenecer a una familia porfirista y moralista.

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Librado García “Smarth”.  Nahui Olin. 

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Martín Ortíz ~ Nahui Olin, ca. 1920. Vintage gelatin silver print. (Galería López Quiroga) | src “Estudios fotográficos de la Ciudad de México”, Palacio de Bellas Artes (2015) via Porta Voz

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María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin

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Retrato de Nahui Ollin (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, 1894-1978), por Edward Weston. 

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Nahui Olin (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca) (Mexican, 1893–1978).

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Nahui OLIN (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca) 1893-1978 Painter and writer #nahuiolin #woman #feminist #blackandwhite #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitalillustration #illustration #strongwoman #artist #femaleartist #everyday #mexicanwoman #digitalartwork #drawing #inked #ink #scetch https://www.instagram.com/p/CM48FutFdW6/?igshid=me3va1rru4fb

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Nahui Ollin

María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca 

"Mi espíritu derramado en mi cuerpo se escapa por mis ojos"

Pintora mexicana

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Nahui Ollin

María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin (b. Tacubaya, today Mexico City, July 8, 1893 – d. Mexico City, January 23, 1978) was a Mexican artist's model, painter and poet.

Carmen Mondragón was the fifth of eight children of General Manuel Mondragón, Secretario de Guerra y Marina in 1913 and inventor of the Mondragón rifle. Her mother was Mercedes Valseca. Carmen Mondragón received a privileged education in Mexico, and afterwards from 1897 to 1905 in France, learning to speak French fluently. The professional activities of General Mondragón, who specialized in artillery design, led the family to Spain in 1905, where she met cadet Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, whom she married on August 6, 1913. Although General Mondragón went into exile to Belgium after the occurrences of the Decena Trágica, Carmen Mondragón moved to Paris with her husband, where they met Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Cocteau. Afterwards they moved to San Sebastián, Spain, where Carmen's brother Manuel ran a photo studio. In San Sebastián, both started painting.

In 1921 both returned to Mexico, where they went separate ways. Whether they were ever divorced is unknown. Carmen Mondragón turned towards the artists' scene of Mexico City, got contacts with José Vasconcelos and Xavier Villaurrutia, and was interested in the Teatro Ulises movement. She had multiple sexual affairs. Her beauty is described as mesmerizing and erotic, and she was apparently the first woman in Catholic Mexico who wore a miniskirt. She became model of several notable painters and photographers, among others posing for some of Diego Rivera's murals, for Tina Modotti, Antonio Garduño, Roberto Montenegro, Matías Santoyo, Edward Weston and in 1928 for Ignácio Rosas at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.[3] Especially her nudes became famous. When a former French teacher of her recognized her pictures, he published A dix ans sur mon pupitre (From my desk, at 10 years old), a book of 1924, which describes the 10-year-old pupil Carmen Mondragón within his teacher's sight. Carmen Mondragón had an intense love relationship with Gerald Murillo, also known as Dr Atl, who named her "Nahui Olin", a symbol of Aztec renewal meaning "four movement", the symbol of earthquakes. They lived together in the former La Merced Cloister. At this time she wrote her poems Óptica cerebral, poemas dinámicos (1922) and Calinement je suis dedans (1923), finished several naïve paintings, and composed. As intensely as the love relationship began, it ended equally quickly in the mid-1920s. Later she denied it completely. After having several further affairs, she stepped out of public life in the 1940s.

Carmen Mondragón is considered one of the talented and revolutionary women who formed the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico by activism and creativity, like Guadalupe Marín, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Tina Modotti, Lupe Vélez and María Izquierdo. Her popularity was due more to her beauty than to her artistic and literary work. She herself described her work as intuitive. All her self-portraits show oversized, green eyes, but her eyes seem highlighted also in paintings by other artists. Many of her works are undated.

Her works were exhibited in the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2007, in an exhibition titled A Woman Beyond Time/Nahui Olin: una mujer fuera del tiempo.

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