By Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1948. Then in 1961 during the revolution of Fidel Castro was part of operation "Pedro Pan". Where thousands of children were flown out of Cuba. She was put into an orphanage in Iowa. In 1972 she graduated from the University of Iowa with a Masters of Art degree.
It was between 1973 and 1980 that she created her series entitled "Silueta". The ideas for her creations using landscapes with her own silhouette were born from the intense inner struggles that she's dealt with, since that fateful day when she was just thirteen years old and was riped away from her homeland. During her art career she won two very prestigious awards and her artwork has been exhibited world wide.
Unfortunately at the age of thirty six in 1985, she meet with a very mysteries and untimely death, when she fell out of a window.
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