Influence
Style
The chromatic scale that Romo favors is a combination of siennas and ochres with greenish blues. These last often bristle against burnt greens, colors close to grass or wet fields. The touches of red are almost always restricted to areas where blood appears. They are measured in such a way as to accrete value to mixed colors, such as Indian red or pink, without competing with them. Romo’s iconography alludes to images of childhood, to his birthplace in Valle del Mezquital and to recent events, whether related to his life or to his personal environment. A reference might be construed by way of its opposite, as in Mezquital there is no water or greenery, and the absence is substituted by presence. Other times the evocation is direct, as with figures and objects that recall the car crash the artist had in 1981 or the landscape in which his house appears with a cactus in the foreground. This is his only picture that lacks fantasy elements, although symbols are still present. The genre of naturalistic painting is defined in relation to genres it most resembles. Romo doesn’t introduce inadmissible, inexplicable or mysterious elements, but he does introduce categories that leave any descriptive context and possess allegorical, emblematic or commemorative meanings. Thus, it can be affirmed that his fantasy is expressed in suprareal or fantastic terms. Instead, he transforms the vision of daily life into a search for poetic fidelity for images and pictorial concepts of personal significance to the artist.Career
In 1978 he became the exhibit coordinator at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, where he was attending. Romo founded the Ixmiquilpan Culture House and he devoted years to teaching painting in the Otomí community. He showed his work at different galleries inRecognition
* First place at the Aguascalientes Arts Contest * Honorific prize at the IV Ibero-American Art Biennial of the Instituto Cultural Domecq. * Premio Estatal de Artes Visuales del Festival Amado Nervo 2009 by Museo Emilio Ortiz at Tepic, Nayarit.Works
# Resistencia Otomí / Jacques and Natasha Gelman CollectionCollective
*''Europalia 93'' PMMK - Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende. Belgium 1993. *"Pintores Latinoamericanos", North America Smithsonian Institution, 1995. *"Pintores y Escultores Mexicanos" Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 1996. *"Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism" SFNOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1996. * Art Museum of South Texas, 1997. *"Landscape of the American" Gibbes Museum of Art, 1998. *"Mexico Eterno, Arte y Permanencia" Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. Mexico 2000. *"Centenario de Frida Kahlo" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. * Philadelphia Museum of Art * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Romo Martin, Jose Luis Latin American artists of indigenous descent Otomi people 20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas Indigenous Mexican painters 20th-century Mexican painters Mexican male painters 1954 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native American artists 20th-century Mexican male artists