Alfredo Ramos Martínez
Alfredo Ramos Martínez
Mexican, 1871 - 1946
Mexican painter, teacher and draughtsman. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and travelled to Europe c. 1900, returning to Mexico in 1909. He was twice Director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (1913–14 and 1920–28) and founded the Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre, an alternative to traditional adademic pedagogy, which first functioned in the village of Santa Anita (1913–14). Initially Neo-Impressionist in orientation, the schools reopened and expanded to include various semi-rural locations in the 1920s and 1930s, with a new Indigenous focus. Ramos Martínez’s work was initially distinguished by a skilled use of pastel, with which he produced Gauguin-inspired Breton scenes, conservative, elegant, society portraits (notably idealized portraits of women) and flower studies. Only when he went to the USA in 1929 did an openly Mexican style appear in his painting and drawing, in scenes of indigenous figures in rural settings.
[Source: Karen Cordero Reiman. "Ramos Martínez, Alfredo." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T070707.]
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San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1898 - 1955
