José Lucas

Jose Lucas Ruiz (Cieza, Murcia, November 14, 1945) is a Spanish painter. He began in the artistic world at the age of 11, receiving the first drawing classes from the sculptor Juan Solano at the local academy of his town. He continued his training at the Murcia School of Arts and Crafts and since 1969 he settled in Madrid, enrolling in the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He made friends with the leading painters, writers, and poets of the time. For a year he resided as a fellow in Germany, where he came into direct contact with abstract expressionism, whose teachings, along with those of Spanish expressionists such as Luis García Ochoa and Francisco Mateos González, have had such an impact on his work. He has received numerous awards for painting and carried out a significant number of exhibitions, as well as various monumental murals. His works start from a personal and free approach and are characterized by being made with an energetic and resounding line and by using a palette of violent colors and a wide variety of techniques (collage, oil, drawing, mixed). He has made the cover of the book Historia del hermitita, by his countryman Miguel Espinosa. Jose Lucas Ruiz