Baruj Salinas

Baruj Salinas Born in Havana of Jewish parents in 1938, painter Baruj Salinas ' career began in the field of architecture. He graduated from the University of Ohio with an architectural degree and left Cuba permanently in 1959. Salinas settled in Miami and later moved to Barcelona where he studied alongside artists Joan Mir and Antoni Tpies. Architecture informed my early work, but gradually I moved toward a purely abstract expression. My work resembles paintings of space, where colour is more important than form and itself becomes a principal theme. There are traces, also, of Jewish traditions, but having been born in Cuba has made its impact. For me Cuba is tropic and sugarcane, it is also the sun and the light. I will never cease to be Cuban. Salina's paintings can be seen in important collections all over the world such as the Joan Mir Foundation, Barcelona; the National Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona; the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico D.F; the Beit Uri Museum, Israel; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Florida; the Fine Arts Museum, Budapest; the Art Institute of Chicago and el Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona. ArtistaMundo.com