Abstract
An artist with great gifts, an exceptional sketcher and a tormented spirit, Julio Ruelas, from Zacatecas, enriched the pages of the Revista Moderna with his original illustrations. It's surprising how much he could express in little pen drawings. Love, women, and death are constant themes in his illustrations. Romanticism, transformed into the decadent and which flows to a Nietzchenean nihilism, is present in Ruelas work, which reflects the decadent spirit, the neurosis of the end of the 19th century. With his drawings Ruelas illustrated with mastery the writings of Tablada, Nervo, Othón, and other Mexican writers of the Modernist period.