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Pintor de Poemas: Unseen Works by Alfredo Ramos Mart铆nez
Acclaimed Mexican modernist Alfredo Ramos Mart铆nez has typically been viewed as apolitical. In this groundbreaking reappraisal, more than 25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Ramos Mart铆nez鈥攎ost never or rarely exhibited鈥攕hed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles. The exhibition takes its title from an early description of Ramos Mart铆nez as 鈥渙ne of those who paints poems,鈥� calling attention to what has been overlooked in his work and the systems that shaped it.
鈥淭his remarkable collection of artworks suggests an artistic practice far more engaged with politics and current events than previously understood,鈥� says guest curator, Scripps alumna, and Director of Louis Stern Fine Arts Robin Dubin. 鈥淚n conversation with less familiar and frequently confounding bodies of the artist鈥檚 work, they offer significant contextual insight into Ramos Mart铆nez鈥檚 artistic production in the United States.鈥�
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Acclaimed Mexican modernist Alfredo Ramos Mart铆nez has typically been viewed as apolitical. In this groundbreaking reappraisal, more than 25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Ramos Mart铆nez鈥攎ost never or rarely exhibited鈥攕hed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles. The exhibition takes its title from an early description of Ramos Mart铆nez as 鈥渙ne of those who paints poems,鈥� calling attention to what has been overlooked in his work and the systems that shaped it.
鈥淭his remarkable collection of artworks suggests an artistic practice far more engaged with politics and current events than previously understood,鈥� says guest curator, Scripps alumna, and Director of Louis Stern Fine Arts Robin Dubin. 鈥淚n conversation with less familiar and frequently confounding bodies of the artist鈥檚 work, they offer significant contextual insight into Ramos Mart铆nez鈥檚 artistic production in the United States.鈥�
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