Leonora Carrington and other artists who refused to be just muses

Leonora Carrington was born on April 6, 1917 in Lancashire, England. She came to live in Mexico in 1942, became Mexican and made this country her home. Daughter of a textile tycoon, since a girl Carrington showed opposition to the religious traditions and customs of her family: she was expelled from two convents before she was sent to a boarding school in Florence, where she began painting. She was one of the most prominent artists of the surrea…

Muses are a figure of inspiration and longing, divine beings capable of encouraging poets in their creative work... or at least that is what Greek mythology tells us, whose most popular version contemplates nine muses, which as time advanced were attributed different disciplines, for example Clío was the muse of history and rhetoric, while Urania was the muse of astronomy and didactic poetry. --> Wikimedia Commons Gustave Moreau, Hesiodo and the…