{"id":739,"date":"2014-07-01T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/?page_id=739"},"modified":"2014-07-04T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T17:52:18","slug":"ramirez-martin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Page-Ram\u00edrez, Mart\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_739'] = [\n{id: 914, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Martin_Untitled-e1404337942776.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Martin_Untitled-e1404323437773-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-martin\/#914\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1960-63<\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Gouache and graphite on paper<br\/>Courtesy of Rico Maresca Gallery and the Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez Estate<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-martin\/#914\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><strong>Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez<\/strong> (Mexican, 1895\u20131963)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_450\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-450 \" style=\"margin-top: -5px;margin-bottom: -5px\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez, late 1920s, photo courtesy of the Estate of Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ram\u00edrez-Mart\u00edn-circa-late-1920s-Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Mart\u00edn-Ram\u00edre-152x250.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ram\u00edrez-Mart\u00edn-circa-late-1920s-Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Mart\u00edn-Ram\u00edre-152x250.jpg 152w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ram\u00edrez-Mart\u00edn-circa-late-1920s-Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Mart\u00edn-Ram\u00edre-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ram\u00edrez-Mart\u00edn-circa-late-1920s-Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Mart\u00edn-Ram\u00edre.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late 1920s, photo courtesy of the Estate of Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez has posthumously gained widespread fame and recognition as one of today\u2019s most significant Outsider artists. An illegal Mexican immigrant and diagnosed schizophrenic, Ram\u00edrez spent most of his time in America confined within the walls of the DeWitt State Hospital in California. While institutionalized, Ram\u00edrez began to draw regularly. While some of his work was sent to his family in Mexico, most of it was thrown out or burned by the hospital staff. It was the psychologist, Tarmo Pasto, who first encouraged Ram\u00edrez\u2019s artistic endeavors. With many of Ram\u00edrez\u2019s surviving pieces in his possession, Pasto continued to promote the artist\u2019s work even after his death. Laden with Mexican Catholic iconography and images of the California railroad, Ram\u00edrez\u2019s work reflects the difficult experiences faced by the artist during his lifetime. He had a deep, ongoing fascination with trains and train tunnels, which, after horseback riders, are the most frequent subject in his art. Much of his work depicts long trains emerging from mountains, slithering snakelike over long tracks, crossing a dark abyss over bridges, or running through tunnels that connect Jalisco and California\u2014the two worlds in which Ram\u00edrez lived. Here, undulating lines that repeat in the upper corners and along the bottom edge of the composition echo the shape of the small, shadowy tunnel openings along train tracks. In the center of the composition, the seated figure is assumed to be a self-portrait seated before a blank page soon to be made into a drawing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-739 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_739\" data-imgid=\"914\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Martin_Untitled-e1404337942776.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Martin_Untitled-e1404323437773-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-914\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-914'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled<\/i>, ca. 1960-63\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez (Mexican, 1895\u20131963) Ram\u00edrez has posthumously gained widespread fame and recognition as one of today\u2019s most significant Outsider artists. An illegal Mexican immigrant and diagnosed schizophrenic, Ram\u00edrez spent most of his time in America confined within the walls of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-martin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2790,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-739","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}