10 Facts About Ignacio Barrios

Ignacio Barrios was a Mexican painter mostly known for his absolute commitment to watercolour painting.

Ignacio Barrios earned the reputation of one of the top watercolour painters in his country of origin and possibly the most distinctive of them all.

Ignacio Barrios was the youngest of the five children of Eustolio Barrios Hernandez - a local miner and farmer - and Isabel Prudencio Flores.

For several years, the Ignacio Barrios made their living out of selling flowers and fruits which they collected around their plot.

Ignacio Barrios stayed in Cuernavaca for an entire year before moving to Mexico City, Mexico, where he managed to enrol in the San Carlos Academy, in part thanks to the support from the prominent Mexican painter Diego Rivera, with whom he met as soon as he arrived in the Mexican capital city.

In 1949, Ignacio Barrios worked as a sign designer at Eureka Rotulos Neon, where he met his first sponsor, Mr Alejandro Tajonar Torres.

Ignacio Barrios received a fixed salary from Tajonar to help him with his then ongoing studies at the School of Arts and Advertising, where he was the student of Ricardo Barcenas.

From that moment, and held up by the ceaseless support of Mr Patino, Ignacio Barrios began to devote all his efforts to the watercolour technique.

Ignacio Barrios's work is mainly characterised by landscaping, urban environment, Art Marine, still life, human body, portraits, abstract and semi-abstract art.

Ignacio Barrios's work has been exhibited in Jamaica, United States, England, Canada, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Estonia, Argentina, El Salvador and Colombia.