![Jesus Ruiz](/sites/default/files/styles/manual_crop_custom/public/pictures-users/BrooklynJR%25203%2520portrait%2520copy.jpg.webp?itok=vZl_rtUq)
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Jesus J. Ruíz was born in Brooklyn NY to a Spanish father and a Prto Rican mother and raised in Puerto Rico. He has been painting since the aged of ten. A self taught painter, he supplemented his natural abilities by studying drawing at early age with a Spanish painter of the name Jose Azaustre residing in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He also studied at the department of Fine Arts at the Catholic University of Ponce Puerto Rico. In New York he went to Germain School of Photography, Graduating in Cinematography, Video Tape and Photography. In the mid-eighties he worked as a free-lance photographer for several magazines in NY and PR.
Classification
![Love Birds](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/lovemail_1.jpg?itok=xu2SF7aC)
Love Birds
Painting
Love Birds
![The peace offer](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/peace%2520offermail_1.jpg?itok=k76WOkMw)
The peace offer
Painting
The peace offer
![Smelling the Flowers](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/smelling%2520the%2520flowersmail_1.jpg?itok=pF0po1UF)
Smelling the Flowers
Painting
Smelling the Flowers
![The Beauty and the Beast](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/labellaylabestiamail_1.jpg?itok=dYFlPbQN)
The Beauty and the Beast
Painting
The Beauty and the Beast
![Out of the jungle](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/out%2520of%2520the%2520junglemail_1.jpg?itok=_isxOOBZ)
Out of the jungle
Painting
Out of the jungle
![The Lady and the cat](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/theladyandthecat_1.jpg?itok=26uge9Uf)
The Lady and the cat
Painting
The Lady and the cat
![Coqui](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/le%2520coqui4_1.jpg?itok=jrEl9C17)
Coqui
Works on Paper
Coqui
![Picasso's Thinking of Guernica.](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/GuernicaMail_1.jpg?itok=967oh7xw)
Picasso's Thinking of Guernica.
Painting
Picasso's Thinking of Guernica.
![Circo](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/circus_1.jpg?itok=m6fDZofC)
Circo
Other
Circo
![Simon Bolivar](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/simon%2520bolivar_0.jpg?itok=rj4i0tAk)
Simon Bolivar
Mixed Media
Simon Bolivar
![Frida KAlo](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/canvasizerCABVN8SB_1.png?itok=0-nbAwZz)
Frida KAlo
Mixed Media
Frida KAlo
![Frida KAlo](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/canvasizerCABVN8SB_0_0.png?itok=RB4dDY-r)
Frida KAlo
Mixed Media
Frida KAlo
![Burlesco](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/3295fe31-0a78-4616-87a9-42188a0b851d_0_0.jpg?itok=YFD8rZ_O)
Burlesco
Mixed Media
Burlesco
![Duarte](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/duarte3_0.jpg?itok=rbRs8CCh)
Duarte
Mixed Media
Duarte
![Jibaro and roosters](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/jibarito_0_0.jpg?itok=gEZH5BOE)
Jibaro and roosters
Painting
Jibaro and roosters
![Vida](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_thumbnail/public/user-gallery-images/LA%2520VIDA_0.jpg?itok=zeMIs6kg)
Vida
Painting