Maria polo biography
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Ana María Polo
Ana María Polo, also known as Doctor Polo, is one of the most influential figures in the Hispanic community. With a trajectory that has lasted over two decades, Polo is one of the most notable Latinas in the world.
"I feel immensely grateful to life for giving me the opportunity to see the impact that my work has generated over the years. It has been a path full of unforgettable moments and also of learning. Being a Hispanic woman and having become a cultural reference for Latinos around the world is a source of immense pride."
Her solid and determined personality has made her not only a cultural icon but a defender of the topics that matter most, like battling cancer, domestic violence, and discrimination towards minorities.
Born in La Havana, Cuba, Polo arrived in the US when she was two years old. She graduated with a degree in political sciences and a law degree, something that she worked with for many years in the T
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Maria Polo
Maria Polo graduated from the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia in 1955. She moved to Rome before settling in Rio de Janeiro in 1962, when abstraction and objecthood were foremost concerns for local avant- garde groups. Untitled (1962) belongs to the series that Maria Polo presented at the eleventh Modern Art Salon in Rio de Janeiro. The painting combines dense and fragmented forms that appear to have exploded against a grey background. Luminous gaps compete with irregular geometries in sanguine and black tones, at times aligned with the edge of the canvas, at times thrown against its limits. Later, Polo developed increasingly colourful abstractions, combining circles with irregular shapes that defy their hardness (1970–1983). Polo’s work evokes the movement and transformation she experienced as a migrant and the condition of being a foreigner in different cities (Venice, Rome, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro). Her brand of abstraction stood apart from the geometric tendencies that
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If some Latinos hear la doctora, it doesn’t evoke the image of a medical doctor. Instead, it’s that of a Cuban American attorney-turned-show-host who sings her own theme song. You know this scene: Dra. Ana María Polo sits behind an elevated desk with a fresh blazer (and blowout). She cringes, curses, sometimes she even cries. But more often, tiene tremenda pena for the litigants standing before her who share some intimacies most people would never want to be repeated, much less on one of the most-watched daytime Spanish-language TV shows. Intimacies like a woman who needs to twerk for hours to seduce her partner or a man who’s suing his wife for biting his testicles.
Not unlike her TV personality, Dra. Polo’s birth year was dramatic. She was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959, the year of the Cuban Revolution. Dra. Polo’s family decided to flee Cuba for Miami when she was two years old and then they emigrated to another Caribbean island, Puerto Rico, where Dra. Polo spent her childho