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Martin Ramirez

Martin Ramirez (1895 - 1963) was active/lived in California / Mexico.  Martin Ramirez is known for Outsider art, naive figure and animal paintings, drawings, collage.

Martin Ramirez is labeled an "outsider artist" because he was self-taught and seemed to be in a world totally unto himself.  Of him relative to this 'outsider' description, it was written: "One reason his drawings always seemed so confounding, even to outsider-art connoisseurs, was because no one was really sure if the women, horsemen, buildings and trains that appear in them were pure products of his imagination or portrayals of specific subjects in the real world that had particular meanings for the artist.  What was Ramirez trying to express?"  

Marked by a reverberating and repetitive line, his drawings have an obsessive quality.  Of the 300 plus extant works, the most recurring images are the horse and rider and trains, potent symbols of the freedom and escape that were denied to him.

The self-taught Ramirez, before he took up art that anyone noticed, was a poor farmer in Jalisco, in the west central part of Mexico.  In 1925   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7028 characters.]  Artist bio

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