Martin Ramírez ( Spanish: Martín Ramírez ; 1895 , Tepatitlan de Morelos - 1963 ) - American self-taught artist of Mexican descent, representative of naive art .
| Ramirez Martin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 30, 1895 |
| Place of Birth | Jalisco , Mexico |
| Date of death | February 12, 1963 (67 years old) |
| Place of death | USA |
| Citizenship |  Mexico USA |
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Biography
Born in the state of Jalisco . He was married, father of four children. Around 1925 he moved to the USA , worked on the railway. Speechless. Pursued by hallucinations, he was arrested in Los Angeles in 1931 and admitted to the Stockton Psychiatric Hospital with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia .
Since 1945 , Ramirez began to paint. In 1948 he was transferred to a hospital in Auburn, California. Here, his drawings were discovered and appreciated by a university professor in Sacramento, psychologist and amateur artist Tarmo Pasto. He began to supply the patient with drawing materials and showed his work to his gallery friends. Since 1951 , exhibitions of the artist’s works in Sacramento , Chicago , New York and other cities followed.
Martin Ramirez died in a mental hospital from pneumonia.
Legacy
In January - April 2007, the American Museum of Folk Art showed a large retrospective exhibition of Ramirez's works [1] .
Literature
- Anderson BD Martín Ramírez . With an introduction by Robert Storr and essays by Víctor M. Espinosa and Kristin E. Espinosa, Daniel Baumann, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. Seattle: Marquand Books in association with American Folk Art Museum , 2007.
- Anderson BD Martín Ramírez: The Last Works . With essays by Richard Rodriguez, and Wayne Thiebaud. Petaluma: Pomegranate Communications in association with Ricco / Maresca Gallery, 2008.
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Links
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- [3] (unavailable link) (English)
- Martín Ramírez “Previously unseen works” (Spanish)
- Essay Octavio Paz on Ramirez (Russian)