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Ricardo
Martínez Gálvez
was born in Buenos Aires on December 16th,1955.
An artist and football fan, in time he became
the football fans painter.
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He comes from a family where art
and football converge.
“One of my maternal aunts painted very well
and had won several prizes in Europe. My mother
had acquired from her family a passion for painting
and art. My father was crazy about football and
never missed a single game of his club. He passed
this passion for football on to me”.
One of his childhood memories goes back to when
he was 10 years old. “I can still see the
train coming into the Villa de Mayo station full
of football fans returning from the field and I
felt they were the freest people in the world. My
first drawings at school were of those trains”.
In 1965, for Christmas, he received as a present
his first box of oil paints to encourage his incipient
interest in drawing and painting.
At the age of 12, he went to the football field
for the first time without his father, with a friend.
“We were so excited that at 9:00 a.m. we were
at the field. I was the first to enter, the place
was completely empty. That day we watched the third
class team game, the reserve, and at 3.00 p.m. the
regular game started. I shall never forget that
day”.
He was a fervent comic strips reader. A follower
of Nipur de Lagash and El Tony, by imitating the
style of the strip he would draw the sequences of
a football play.
His school days elapsed among notepads and pencils.
“I would draw each play I had seen that Sunday.
I would draw the whole sequence from the moment
the play started until it finished at the goal posts
with a goal. It was like a delineated photogram”. |
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Almost as a game, he started to learn his first
drawing techniques by mail. “One day I saw
a Course was being offered to learn to draw by mail.
I applied. They sent me the exercises, I would do
them, send them back and they would correct them.
Months would go by between each dispatch, it was
great fun, it made me very expectant about the reply.
That’s how I started to learn a few drawing
techniques at the age of 14”.
On observing Ricardo’s interest in drawing,
when he was 17, his mother suggested he take a course
to learn to draw with Domingo Méndez Terrero,
a painter. This painter taught him to paint with
tempera and for the first time he found someone
outside his family who recognized his capacity and
potential for drawing and who also represented the
world of art for him.
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