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Height 79 cm
Width 67 cm

The painter José Morales, known as Pepe Morales, was born on December 25, 1933 in Palma del Río.

In 1936, after the outbreak of the Civil War, the family moved to Seville At the age of 12, he enrolled in the Capuchin Arts and Crafts School in Seville, attending this school until 1948.

He enters the Superior School of Fine Arts of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and at night attends classes at the School of Arts and Crafts.

He founded the "Young Seville School" with other artists and participated in his first salon. It belongs to the group of poets and painters "Camilla del Guadalquivir".

He obtains the title of drawing teacher, a teacher who is not interested in practicing and travels painting landscapes in Northern Spain.

He obtained the first Prize at the SEU Provincial Exposition in Seville. He is selected in Exhibition II Biennial Hispanic American Caribbean Countries.

In 1954 he made his first individual exhibition in the Municipal Art Room of Córdoba on landscape themes.

Travel to Italy and France.

He is selected for the II Hispano-American Biennial of Barcelona.

Participate in the Córdoba Hall with sculpture-painting work. Between the years 1965 to 1969 he intervenes in various group exhibitions and in the face of socio-political demands, he tries to contribute his painting to social morality. He abandons abstraction and fully addresses a plastic formulation, a symbiosis of realism, expressionism and surrealism, in which the thematic contents play a fundamental role, initiating his so-called "black stage".

He exhibits the new works in individual exhibitions, in the Studio 52 Gallery in Córdoba, Madrid and Valencia, as well as in various collectives.

With other colleagues, he develops a socio-cultural activity with exhibitions in the neighborhoods of Córdoba and the province.

Travel in India, Nepal and Egypt. After these trips in his painting, tenebrism disappears and he becomes more colorful, his technique changes and his subject matter reflects more concern for the study of the human mind than for the properly socio-political theme.

Convene with other colleagues all the plastic artists of Córdoba and Province to try to create the Trade Union Association of Plastic Artists of Córdoba.

In 1982, he began a new experience with ceramics and worked with potters from Ubeda, Puente del Arzobispo and Granada, holding exhibitions in Jaén and Córdoba.

He obtains the first Honorable Mention in the IV National Painting Contest of Córdoba)

In 1987 he moved his studio and residence to Malaga and Marbella and possibly influenced by important family, sentimental and environmental events, he changed his painting again. It tries to free itself from all of the above and enters a stage where the work builds it with white fabrics from old sheets or white rags folded and glued; working like hes embalming something. The dominant tone is the natural of the fabric and plays the essential with color.

He exhibits the first works of this stage in the collective organized by the new Manuela Vilches gallery in Marbella.

He obtains the first Prize at the X Biennial of Marbella.

In 1991 he begins to number his works. He exhibited in 1993 in the hall of the Unicaja cultural work in Malaga.

On the occasion of his more than 50 years of work in the art world, retrospective exhibitions took place at the Museu Docesá da Barcelona and at Le Musée du Montparnaesse in Paris with the title of "Morales, itinerary of an Andalusian painter".

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