Andres Barajas
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Andres Barajas (1941 in Jaen, Spain - 2006) was a Spanish graphic artist. His artistic activity, concentrated in graphics, linked to the greatest creators that art history has shown clearly as masters. Figures and scenery attain great, rotund volumes while lights and shadows are completely subject to his will to achieve profound contrasts.
During the 1980s, Barajas chose a dark range of colors, almost a monochrome. His subject matter included themes related to witchcraft, the farse of official religion, and ignorance. The 1990s brought forth a much more colorful Barajas. The artist immersed himself in the fascinating world of bullfighting and a very personal mythological vision in which Europa is the one who carries Zeus off.
The numerous prizes, monographs, and critical studies that have followed Barajas’s exhibitions academically back up the quality of this artist.
