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The Odyssey, Myths and Legends, The Mirror of Narcissus, The Travels of Marco Polo ... These are books that I met when I was 10 years of my father's hand, which, as professor of EGB 5, that years (1977) suggested we read some of them in order to stimulate our learning. Then I followed with the municipal library in my village, Porcuna. These books were for many children of my generation the first steps to learn the ancient myths of the Mediterranean, medieval legends, the first contact with the mysteries of the Far East ... They were illustrated by artists who developed the most significant part of their work around decades of the 50 and 60: Alice and Martin Provens, Eduardo Santonja, Lorenzo Goñi, Adam Ferrer, José Bort ... In my work as a painter, is now a role model, especially Provens and Lorenzo Goñi, gorgeous artist, born in Jaén, of which I had occasion, ten years later, to see a great retrospective exhibition. I think in a sense, I have thought of something like the story it tells Paulo Coelho in his book "The Alchemist", then I go away to study art for so long and visit museums in different countries, I find that the style drawing that fills what was really always there before my eyes in the books of the municipal library in a humble village in the Andalusian countryside. ....
The Odyssey, Myths and Legends, The Mirror of Narcissus, The Travels of Marco Polo ... These are books that I met when I was 10 years of my father's hand, which, as professor of EGB 5, that years (1977) suggested we read some of them in order to stimulate our learning. Then I followed with the municipal library in my village, Porcuna. These books were for many children of my generation the first steps to learn the ancient myths of the Mediterranean, medieval legends, the first contact with the mysteries of the Far East ... They were illustrated by artists who developed the most significant part of their work around decades of the 50 and 60: Alice and Martin Provens, Eduardo Santonja, Lorenzo Goñi, Adam Ferrer, José Bort ... In my work as a painter, is now a role model, especially Provens and Lorenzo Goñi, gorgeous artist, born in Jaén, of which I had occasion, ten years later, to see a great retrospective exhibition. I think in a sense, I have thought of something like the story it tells Paulo Coelho in his book "The Alchemist", then I go away to study art for so long and visit museums in different countries, I find that the style drawing that fills what was really always there before my eyes in the books of the municipal library in a humble village in the Andalusian countryside. ....
Alice and Martin Provens, illustration of "The First Noel"
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Eduardo Santonja, illustration of "Parallel Lives. Alexander, Julius Caesar, Ed Aguilar, 1962.
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. Adam Ferrer, illustration of "The Mirror of Narcissus", Ed Doncel 1969. ........
Lorenzo Goñi, illustration for "Glimpses of Spain." Altamira, Madrid, 1953. 
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