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1941
Andrés Barajas reinvents the bullfighting tradition through expressionist printmaking, casting woman as a modern Europa in a bold, personal vision of the myth.
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Andrés Barajas was a Spanish painter and engraver, born in Huelma (Jaén) in 1941. Most of his work is devoted to graphic art. The infobox gives his birth date as 28 January 1941 and his death year as 2006.
His family moved to Madrid in 1952. In 1958 he began his artistic studies at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos, and later completed his training at the Círculo de Bellas Artes. He traveled through Europe in the 1970s, where he was influenced by the Expressionist movement. In the 1980s he began teaching mural painting at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos.
His work draws on the world of bullfighting, but with a different vision from other artists, introducing woman as a modern version of the myth of the rape of Europa.
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