Jose Antonio Farrera - Artist Info

About Jose Antonio Farrera

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    He is considered one of the most relevant artists in the nude genre of his generation. In 2014 he participated in "El hombre al desnudo. Dimensiones de la masculinidad a partir de 1800", presented in Museo Nacional de Arte. In Farrera's work, women are above all, a vital force as it is set apart from the canons of forced beauty, traditionally imposed as an obligation and a reason of existence for the female gender. José Antonio uses technical virtuosity that allows him to manipulate lights, shadows, proportions and textures to his liking, serving an interesting purpose: creating a constant tension in and out of the painting, a peculiar power play in which we often don't know if we look at the women o...

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