Martínez organized an exhibition under the name Los Quemados in June 1975 at the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio. He joined the Con Safo art group in San Antonio in late 1972, and he resigned in November 1974. After serving in California and Korea, he moved to San Antonio in 1971.īefore he began making images of people in 1978 (the batos and rucas noted above), Martínez experimented with color field painting. Martínez was drafted into the army in 1969. Martínez, rather than expecting to be an artist, had hoped to become a bullfighter, and he has often utilized bullfighting imagery in his art. Martínez received an Education Bachelor of Science Degree in All-Level Art Education from Texas A&I University, Kingsville, Texas, in 1968. He graduated from Martin High School in Laredo, Texas. Martínez was raised by his mother and her family in Laredo. Martínez has been based in San Antonio, Texas since 1971. Martínez also takes mythological subjects, South Texas folklore, and the Southwest landscape as subjects. The artist has refined these images in paintings, drawings, and prints for many years. Martínez is best-known for his depictions of Chicano social types, which are referred to generically as 'batos" and "rucas." They are composite images, taken from vintage magazines, photographs, yearbook pictures, obituaries, and other sources. He subsequently befriended several of its leaders.
While studying at what was then called Texas A&I College (later Texas A&I University), he became involved in the Chicano movement for civil rights. César Augusto Martínez (born 1944 in Laredo, Texas) is an artist, prominent in the field of Chicano art.
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