Guadalupe Marín (October 16, 1895–1983)

La blasfemia

Catástrofe horrible que nada consuela;

deplórenlo todos por la Guada Lupe;

del pobre Juan Diego no prende la vela

y en seco proyecta lo poco que escupe. (37–40)

De Nueva Galicia con fresca Gorgona

—el traje de jockey, la voz de sargento,

modelo en el muro, tumulto en la zona—,

monstruoso celebra carnal juntamiento

Guadalupe Marín, when Diego met her, was the wildest and most tempestuous beauty in Jalisco. . . . Long of limb and tall of body, graceful and supple as a sapling; hair black, wild, unkempt, curly; dark olive skin, light sea-green eyes; high fore head and nose of a Phidian statue, full lips ever parted by eager breath and by lively, disorderly, and scan­dalous chatter; a body so slender as to suggest a youth rather than a woman—such was Lupe when Diego met her. Part of her beauty lay in her wildness; way ward of thought and speech and action; primitive as an animal in her desires and her readiness to scratch, bite and slash to attain them; clever, spontaneous, un tutored, cunning with animal cunning; absorbed in herself as a spoiled kitten, with the same toleration of those who serve and pet and feed her, the same aloof ness; the same claws too, hidden in deceptive soft ness; capable of giving blow for blow in her bouts with her mammoth husband, making up for what she lacked in physical strength by the long nursing of her wrath and the wild tongue; capable of slashing his sketches and fresh-painted canvases before his eyes as an act of vengeance; threatening once to shoot his right arm off that he might never do another paint ing—a hell-cat when aroused, a graceful, splendid, purring, feline creature when contented. (182–84)

Guadalupe Marín (October 16, 1895–1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a model and novelist born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico. At eight years of age Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. In 1922 she became the SECOND wife of muralist Diego Rivera. Marín was the mother of Rivera's two youngest daughters, Ruth and Guadalupe Rivera. She was later married to the poet Jorge Cuesta.

Marín was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation, where she modeled as Strength, Song, and Woman. She also modeled nude as Earth for Rivera'sChapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant. Marín also modeled for photographer Edward Weston.

In 1938, Marín's semi-autobiographical novel La Única was published. In 2003 the novel and Marín were cited by author Salvador A. Oropesa in his book The Contemporáneos Group as being a feminist component of a counterculture writers' movement in post-revolutionary Mexico. She also

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wrote Un día patrio in 1941.