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Paintings of Artist Jose Parra 

Artist Jose Parra is a Contemporary Mexican surrealist painter born in 1975 in the western Mexico specifically in Guadalajara city. He has been painting since adolescence, when at the age of sixteen he began training as an apprentice in his father's workshop. There he was able to create his own compositions in the style traditional for the artists of his family - the Spanish Baroque,  which helped him to shapes experience very well.

Jose tries to immerse the viewer's attention in his work , in the time that exists between reality and fantasy. This is a time where there is still no electricity, and the characters living there discover new laws of physics. They are ironic, wise, sometimes funny, but always brooding harlequins. In this period, as indeed, at any time, there is a place for play and masks. The viewer is given the freedom to imagine and travel within himself, thereby discovering his own fantasy world with fairy-tale characters and places.

José Parra has painted a series of paintings, in which colorful images of the past come to life, spiced with fantasy motifs. And it is not at all surprising that these canvases with pretentious characters frozen on them, dressed in expensive suits and lush dresses, not only attracted everyone's attention, but also spread around the world, becoming one of the most popular works in this genre.

His paintings are influenced by works in a style that mixes baroque and magical realism.

This picture is from the "Chess Series". Somewhere it is called "Observer", and somewhere "Blue Horse".

The floor overhanging the abyss. On the sides, the platform is enclosed in a strong embrace of the walls of the tower, which converge under the ceiling, forming a dome.

A beautiful view opens from the tower window. Left to the BOAT tower, right to the ELEPHANT tower. This is exactly what our protagonist of the picture, the owner of his tower and the owner of the Black Horse, observes.

Unfortunately, the photographs do not convey the real feeling of the painting.

Jose Parra went to United States and Canada in 2000, There he signed with Grady Harp in California and Neil Zuckerman in New York. I got acquainted with the ideas of Frederic Hart, Teilhard de Chardin and Anna Bachelier at CFM in New York. All this had a significant impact on the artist's style, giving the works a bright touch of surrealism. In 2001, Jose joined the New York Student Arts League and returned to Mexico. His works are published in Mexico, USA and Europe. In 2010, the artist started writing the book "Contemporary International, the Artist s". This was followed by three more books: "Dreamscapes", "Imaginaire" and "100 Artist s of the Male Figure". Jose Parra's exhibitions and presentations are most often held at home in Guadalajara, as well as in the USA, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and France.