{"id":530,"date":"2012-01-16T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2013-02-14T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:49:31","slug":"featured-artist-juan-manuel-parajes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/featured-artist-juan-manuel-parajes\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Juan Manuel Parajes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-536\" title=\"Picture 6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-6-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-6-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Picture-6.png 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured in one of our \u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/art-in-the-morning-juan-manuel-pajares\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art in the Morning<\/a>&#8221; segments,\u00a0we are highlighting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajaresart.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Manuel Parajes<\/a> again, but digging a little deeper into this street collage artist.<\/p>\n<p>What best describes his artwork:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfinished geometric elements, lines intercrossed towards the infinite&#8230; All suspended, floating, in a ground swell of manifold and solid colors&#8230;Everything, as a whole, in constant movement, but also suspended in the air&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Juan Manuel Parajes uses layers of iconic images&#8211;the late Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Malcolm X, among other visuals stimulants&#8211;creating a classic artwork, knowingly or\u00a0unknowingly. His artwork has been shown at Christies Gallery in Paris, France to Villa de Arte Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, claiming an international presence. There&#8217;s something always alluring about street art. Maybe it&#8217;s the beauty of the unexpected. The unexpected location (outside of museum or gallery spaces) and message. Parajes manages to harness this complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Want to view more of Parajes&#8217; artwork? Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/artists.php?mID=62&amp;page=overview\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Heather Liggins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Featured in one of our \u00a0&#8220;Art in the Morning&#8221; segments,\u00a0we are highlighting Juan Manuel Parajes again, but digging a little deeper into this street collage artist. What best describes his artwork: Unfinished geometric elements, lines intercrossed towards the infinite&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/featured-artist-juan-manuel-parajes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-featured-artist","tag-juan-manuel-pajares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Vc1q-8y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}