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My creativity is in my imaginary themes

Biography

José De la Barra, from Peru, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts of Peru (Lima, Peru). His style is characterized by emotional art with a welcoming, tender, subtle attitude and personal representations.

De la Barra clings to the figurative foundation of his work and explores his stylistic project with total freedom, without stopping at confined disquisitions, letting the imagination flow harmoniously with airs taken from reality so that the surrealist magic prevails, favoring the presence of an original work with its own indications.

A scene that suggests intentionality with an air of subtle eroticism, in the middle of a scenic delirium, where two butterflies simulate carrying away like a child's kite the fabric that makes an improvised mask for the standing nymph, leaving the imagination free to feel the touch of the skin of the woman lying down; the scene fragments the plane giving the sensation of being in the sea; two little birds participate in the game, one that observes and another that seems to have the key at the end of the thread that it holds with its beak so that the scene lasts; in the background, silent witnesses of a calm sea and a multicoloured sky that silently accompany the allegory. Imaginary characters, bathed in fantasy, emulating candid harlequins, dreamy beings entertained in activities, simplicity, dispersion, leisure, fairy tale characters, dreamlike carnival, dressed in festive colours, characters that populate the fantastic world of the painter. In his works, the rich coloring of the composition denotes a luminous conception of its purpose, which runs through harmonic patterns that flirt with the decorative; where the painter with a firm stroke shows his mastery of the academic to establish his own pictorial concept, strengthening his attitude in the imagination for his task, ideas that he effectively resolves with recreations that allow him to show off his skill in the handling of color and form. José de la Barra navigates the contour of the figures, induced by intentions of primary harmonization, which he enriches with the intensity of the color that prevails over factors of overexpression; the bright color and harmonious contrasts at the same time, give it a mystical air, maintaining a fantastic,