My favorite Artist now

The artist has caught my atention at this moment, and therefore, is now my favorite artists is Celia Leyton. She born in Santiago of Chile since 1895, she was student in Painting Academy of Chile in the 20s and 30s, their teachers was Juan Francisco Gonzales, Ricardo Brichón-Brunet and pedro Reszka, among others.
Her work it's related to her experiences when she was a child, their father was a landowner in the border with the Araucania. She had the opportunity to share with the nearby community, the culture Mapuche and their people caught their soul, the colors and the customs removed their pasion to the point that she decide dedicated to devote his whole life to the representation of this culture.

In the 50s and 60's she publicated two books, one about all his work, with the criticism, pictures and the exposition in which she participated. The second book she publicated it's more biographical, as memory of how she came to dedicated all his pictorial work to the Mapuche people.

I got this Celia this year, investigated and reading about old exposition of Chilean art, when i know about his work i felt a great emotion. What i like most about Celia and his work is the theme that represent, the culture Mapuche.