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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, coinciding with the commemoration this 8-M of International Women’s Day, the characters of Susi Chin’s Tres Tietes have been portrayed as three of the figures of feminism in Catalonia: Maria Pi and Sunyer, Teresa Claramunt and Caterina Albert.
We can also see them dressed in current times, but with the color purple and violet, which represents women’s fight for equality and against discrimination.
The first portrait in Susi Chin’s illustration shows us Tieta characterized as Maria Pi i Sunyer (1883 – 1912) from Barcelona, ??a writer and translator who is considered one of the first Catalan feminists.
She studied to be a piano teacher and also a teacher, a title she achieved a few weeks before she died. The director of the Barcelona magazine Feminal, Carme Karr, discovered Maria Pi, who published stories, articles and reports, some under the pseudonym Roser de Lacosta.
Through Feminal, he made friends with the painter Maria Oller, daughter of Narcís Oller, with the Italian novelist and marquise Maria Majocchi Plattis (Jolanda) and with the activist Rosalia Gwis Adami, director of the magazine La vita internazionale.
Teresa Claramunt i Creus (1862 – 1931) was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader. She lived in a context marked by a labor movement in formation and anarchism on the rise.
She is considered a pioneer of workerist feminism, since she will be one of the first to raise the need for the autonomous organization of anarchist women. A few years after her death, her ideas were collected in the organization Mujeres Libres.
Caterina Albert i Paradís (1869 – 1966) was known, however, at a literary level under the name Víctor Català. She was the author of the novel Solitude (1905), one of the primary literary works of modernism. She also developed a career as a painter, sculptor and draftsman.
Curiously, there are many public spaces in various towns dedicated to Víctor Català, the pseudonym, instead of remembering Caterina Albert by her female name.
The prize he received at the Floral Games of 1898 represented the first recognition of his literary ability, but it would not take him long to use the pseudonym Víctor Català, the name of the protagonist of an unfinished novel of his.
On the occasion of March 8 (8M), International Women’s Day, formerly known as International Working Women’s Day, artist Susi Chinchilla also pays tribute to women artists and influencers of the past, also embodied by her Tres Tietes characters.
