



Ricardo MartÃnez de Hoyos (28 October 1918 – 11 January 2009) was a Mexican painter. From a very young age painted for an income to help his family, though he didn't have a formal training in fine arts (he studied law). He learned from books like Max Doerner's The materials of the artist. His first works were still life paintings, followed by non-narrative monumental figures related to Pre-Colombine sculpture. At the end of the 1960s decade MartÃnez created irreal atmospheres in his works by using light and shadow.







