Mina loy worked as a poet and visual artist in Paris, Florence, and New York City, where he beauty and outlandish behaviour shone at the centre of several avant-grade circles. She made colourful appearances of biographies of many other writers and artists. Including Marcel Duchamp, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.
She was born in London December 27th, 1882. She attended a conservative art school and was influenced early on by impressionism. She achieved some success as a painter. Her paintings were displayed in the prestigious Salon d'Automne show in Paris 1905. She moved to the united states in 1916. Although her reputation preceded her, while hailed representing "The New Women"and the last word in modern verse, Loys poetry disturbed a few of her more conservative contemporaries. Marianne Moore found herself uneasy in Loys company. Jon Collier cited Loys verse as an example of the need for "objective Standards". Still she had many admirers like Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, and the members of the New York Dada group, including the Poet/Boxer Arthur Cravan home she married in 1918.
Being an artist Mina Loy was also labelled a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, Feminist, Conceptualist, Modernist, Post-Modernist, Experimenting with media in her artwork she moved from oil to ink by world War one then lighting fixtures in the lat 1920s, and finally to sculptures featuring items collected from the streets and garbage cans of Manhattan. She hailed herself with her visual art more than her writing claiming that at the end of her life that she"never was a Poet".
She was a, poet, playwright, novelist,futurist, actress, Christian scientist, feminist, model, nurse, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.
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