Ramon Diaz Moreno

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Ramon Diaz Moreno (nacido el 26 de octubre de 1951 en la provincia de Granada, España) es pintor y escultor español, es conocido por impartir clases de potencial humano y creacion de conciencia, al mismo tiempo continua trabajando en su vision artistica.

Biografia

At the time of the artist’s birth, shortly after the end of World War II, the social and cultural climate of Spain was

difficult. Those who lost the war did not have to right to public assembly, and freedom of ideas or opinions did not exist. The

dictatorship lacked the sensibilities necessary to create a policy of national reconciliation. On the contrary, the government

created single-minded policies that excluded any dissent.

The artist’s family thought it best to immigrate and when Ramon was four years old, they moved to Asturias, a

northern costal area of tiny fishing villages and wide forests. At that time, there were massive waves of immigrants

throughout Europe. The prejudices against immigrants were daunting, and they lived in an atmosphere of exclusion and

submission. These adverse circumstances, however, created a “gift” for Ramon, his artistic drive.

During these formative years, nature became the artist’s companion and the river, trees, birds, rain and snow were

his playmates. Tumbling on the grass, gathering wild fruit, watching squirrels, climbing trees, playing in the mud, sculpting

snow, these were his youthful activities and they awakened an insatiable curiosity. In time, his growing anxieties created

deeper questions. He wondered: “What does it mean to live as a child?”“What is death?” “Where do thoughts live?” His

questions were dismissed and the few answers that were provided seemed banal and stale. His yearnings for a deeper

truth increased, as did his implacable urge to question everything.

The myths generated by the social system did not satisfy Ramon, as he felt a deep and abiding spiritual drive. The

culture of his time stigmatized any mystical experience as the business of madmen, poets and artists. For Ramon, however,

he was certain of an inner knowledge and felt without a doubt that life has value, and that he knew there was more to life

than what his elders espoused. This inner knowing led him to study philosophy, theology, poetry, and the all-involving

mystery of God and man.

When he was 12 years old, during a visit to the El Padro museum in Madrid, Ramon discovered the art works of

Goya, El Bosco, Ribera, and Velasques. Feeling the rich variety of human emotions evoked by these works of art, he was

awakened to a tremendous need to someday master the necessary skill and talent to summon these same emotions in

others, emotions that as a child felt like burning knots in his chest. He intuitively knew he needed experiences: he needed

to know what a verse was, where poems came from, the ecstasy of beauty. The prevailing closed mindedness of the world

he lived in excluded beauty, and sanitized contemporary artistic movements as forms of intellectual perversion. In the

culture of the time, the history of art ended with Impressionism, and all art movements after that simply did not exist.

A second artistic awakening came when Ramon was sixteen years of age. At that time, he traveled to Barcelona

where he had an opportunity to visit the Picasso museum. Seeing the great artist’s works, Ramon was stunned by the

mastery of his artistic gesture, the surprising creativity of his images, as well as the formal beauty of his compositions.

Ramon was deeply affected and Picasso’s works influenced his vision of the elemental nature of art.

In 1967, Barcelona was a cultural hot bed. There was a great thirst for political, cultural and intellectual freedom.

New ideas and art forms were discussed, including Surrealism, psychic-magic beliefs, Buddhism, and yoga. Previously

banned poetry found voice and the first stirrings of new political parties working clandestinely were heard in late night

discussions in bars and coffee houses. A social revolution accompanied by the music of the 60s was heard in the streets

and in time, these ideas worked together to break up old traditions.

All these new and stimulating ideas created an even greater curiosity in the artist. He remembered a quote: Art is

not just a fad, it’s a condition of the soul. (Marc Chagall). These discoveries brought to light new hopes, new expectations,

new ideas. That same year, the artist traveled to Paris where he visited the Louvre Museum and met with exciting young

artist such as Jeune Pomme. He was there at a time when the artistic community was demonstrating in the streets of Paris,

carrying banners and shouting their slogans: “Demand the impossible!”, “The beaches are under the pavement!” For

Ramon, it was living a dream. What started as a family vacation ended up being an initiation into another world.

After this trip, Ramon decided to leave home and embark in an independent, bohemian lifestyle. To reach his goal,

he moved to Ibiza, an island in the Mediterranean off the shore of Spain, which at that time was the epicenter of irreverent,

iconoclastic ideas. During this time, Ramon met a number of artists that were either visiting or living on the island. These

artists brought a rich exchange of ideas, a veritable stream of new concepts and attitudes about the world that came in

every language imaginable.

Between 1972 and 1990, Ramon began to exhibit his paintings in coffee house, jazz bars, cultural associations,

private homes, and art galleries. Some of them were ephemeral places whose short-lived purpose seemed to be to carry

forth Ramon’s artistic expression, works that ultimately flowed to Asturias, Barcelona, Ibiza and Paris. During this time

Ramon collaborated with other artists in a variety of genres, including stage productions for movies and operas.

In 1994, influenced by a series of dreams, Ramon traveled to Mexico. There he came into contact with cultures

such as the Huitcholes and Taraumaras, who hold a practical view of the extrasensory and consider the supernatural an

integral part of every day life. This was just the right impulse to validate Ramon’s artistic truth, not only as a form of

expression but also as a road to knowledge.

Inspired by the brilliant colors of Mexico and the warmth of its people, Ramon move there with his wife and

daughter in 1996. The ensuing years were a time for personal growth and enrichment, as his anxieties and questionings

settled down as experiences transformed them into opportunities for a deepening wisdom and inner knowledge.

One of the many truths about life that Ramon learned are summed up in these words:

All the work one has done often makes sense in a project one has never imagined. The different and varied steps

one takes throughout life establish themselves into a coherent whole that is one’s being.

When Ramon’s father died in 2000, he returned to Barcelona, where he currently lives. There he gives classes in

human potential and consciousness raising, as well as continuing work on his artistic vision.

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