About The Artist:
Jose Ortega
José Ortega is born in 1921 in Arroba de los Montes (Spain). His family moves to Madrid in 1934 and in his early years the young boy is being interest in art. At age 15, then the Spanish civil war breaks out, Ortega is already a protest artist. He joins the Communist Party, is being sentenced to 10 years in prison (1947); acquitted in 1952, José Ortega enrolls at the National School of Graphic Arts and at the free Club of Fine Arts...
view artist page
About The Medium:
Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.