Jose Antonio Fuentes

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Jose Antonio Fuentes combines a multitude of influences and techniques. He cites Surrealism as a foundational source of inspiration, particularly the works of Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. He also credits illustration and comics, abstraction, and expressionism as influential to him, particularly work by artists Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Henri Matisse. American hyperrealist painter Richard Estes imparts the most discernable impact on Fuentes, as they share a procedure of assembling different photos and perspectives and then complete the arranged image with realist precision.

Drawn to art since childhood, Jose Antonio Fuentes, limited finances kept him from pursuing art in school or as a career. Whenever circumstances allowed he continued to draw and paint, participate in art contests, and visit all nearby museums and artists' workshops.

Now that his children are grown, he has continued his cultural education, spending hours in world class museums and attending art openings and workshops. He also paints full time.