Background
Martín was born María Luisa Martín in Salamanca, Spain to father Vicente Martín, who drew railways and railway lines.
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Mary Martin
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In this new country, Mary studied at the Academia Hispano Mexicana, but when she was a teenager she left school to pursue a career in art Her father was her first teacher, and later studied with painter and architect Roberto Fernández Balbuena.
Career
The father escaped to help his family flee Europe and become refugees in Mexico. She was a communist but not active in the party because of what she considered the machismo of the male members. She died of cancer at age 65.
In the early 1950s, she met Diego Rivera, who invited her to collaborate on mural projects at the Teatro de Insurgentes and The Olympic Stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria.
From 1955 to 1960, she exhibited her work in Europe (Warsaw, Paris, Ljubljana, Stavropol, Moscow and Prague), Beijing and San Antonio, Texas. The student uprising in Mexico prompted her to become a drawing teacher, working with the architecture faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from then until her death in 1982.
She was inducted into the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and served on its board.
Membership
She then became a member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular focusing on printmaking with political and social themes such as images of workers, indigenous people, prisoners and works supporting the Cuban Revolution.
