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JOSÉ MORÁN VÁZQUEZ
Gálvez (Toledo). Resident in Madrid. Spanish artist The first-born son of the also artist, Leopoldo Morán, was born in Gálvez (Toledo, Spain) 11 June of 1959. It will be his father who will be responsible for initiating him in drawing and painting. Since he had the use of reason, José, he sat watching his father while he was painting and that interest It was decisive for his future development as an artist. Under the tutelage of Leopoldo Morán, he learned dexterity in the strokes of the drawing, the textures in the brushstrokes and the luminosity in the colors. At the age of twelve, he knows the honeys of success by participating in a national painting and drawing contest in Toledo, where he obtained the first two prizes. The drawing with "San Juan Evangelista" and the painting with "San Ildefonso", both fragments of works by El Greco. This artist was his great inspiration during this stage. His paintings from that first period are a reflection of the academic technique, fundamental in a first pictorial stage. Later, adolescence did not separate him from art but strengthened his relationship even more, if possible. He began to make exhibitions everywhere and gave way to an artistic era of rebellion and nonconformity "Ascended to the heavens" and "Voyage to Mars" are proof of that. A few years later, he moved to Madrid, where he began to be part of the framing business and sale of works that his father founded a few years before. Since then, exhibitions and Production of works begins to grow. During these years he founded, together with other artists, "Grupo 7", an association of painters who together numerous exhibitions throughout the Spanish geography. In addition, they contributed important in the initial development of the first national newspaper dedicated to the arts, "El punto de the arts ", directed by José Pérez Guerra. At that time, the dissemination of his work was capitalized. His dealer, Fernando Fernán Gómez, commissioned to disseminate his work in writing in magazines and art books of his publishing house "FFG" (Lapiz o El mail of art). But he also knows the journalist and writer Juan Antonio Pérez Mateos, who admires his work and is responsible for disseminating it among the written and audiovisual media (TVE2). It is his most prolific stage and this takes advantage of him to make his first great tribute to his teacher, the Greco, with an itinerant exhibition throughout Spain, organized by the Caja Postal. But not only your work is disseminated throughout Spanish territory. For these years, is part of an exhibition that runs the United States as representative of the current Toledan landscape painting. In his paintings of that third period highlights works of his land, Toledo and its landscapes, perhaps for longing. By Of course portraits on request are not lacking. Approximately two decades later, he creates "Estudio de pintura Morán", where he becomes teacher of a few students of very different profiles but united by the passion for art. In Currently, dozens of students have passed through their tutelage and some of them are already doing exhibitions throughout Spain. It is at this time, when it begins to experiment and renew itself, to remove prejudices and norms, follow the rules of freedom, giving rise to a fourth pictorial stage, of reflection. And in that find now, creating new forms of abstraction, cities loaded with expressionism or versioning old works. |
| English speaker: | No |
| Website: | http://josemoranvazquez.es/ |
| Participation Date: | October 31 2017 |