The artist from Barranquilla is viral in Spain – Arte

The image of a man drawing a Muslim woman in a public space became viral in Spain . He is a Colombian of Barranquilla, who was in the Paseo de las Ramblas in Barcelona drawing a woman to Nicab, whose eyes are barely seen. 19659002] This photo viralized in social networks, causes perplexity and even some teasing of Internet users who highlight the small complexity of the portrait, made "for the same price" than any other.

In the photo you see an artist, Galo Ariel Vega on a square drawing the portrait of a woman wearing a traditional full face veil of the Persian Gulf. The garment covers her entire body, with the exception of her eyes, hands and feet, in which she wears branded sports shoes.

But the question of many was, Why a Muslim woman who can not see her face wants to be photographed? unleashing a lot of comments, especially critics, which was somewhat offensive to people who belong to this culture. "What he earns from the time he spent on charcoal" "Only his shoes are seen" "that he took her photocopies " were among the posts posted on the social networks.

The artist behind this image, the barranquillero Galo Ariel Vega has lived in Barcelona for 38 years, devoting himself to making charcoal paintings for those who walk along the iconic promenade of the Catalan city.

How did this idea of ​​painting the Muslim come into being?

As reported by El Periódico a Spanish newspaper to which the artist granted an interview, told the story. The woman let her know with basic English that she wanted to be portrayed in a portrait: "By his gestures, the man who accompanied him seemed to disagree and did not want that the woman sits, but she was standing She left and when I finished her portrait, the man came back to look for her, she just asked me to take her pretty eyes .

At the request, Vega was surprised. "It's strange that someone gets angry because his wife takes a picture and more when you really do not know who is behind the niqab … Because of the eyes, no one knows who the nobody " he said. In this sense, Galo argues that whoever has the right to do what he wants, it does not hurt anyone, "I did a lot of portraits of Muslim girls and it is not common to wear the niqab.It is true to its beliefs and must be respected.if they wear a niqab, either because they want it, or because they are forced, they have the same right as other tourists to ask to be represented in a portrait "

Who is Galo Ariel Vega?

artist is 64 years old, he is a painter and draftsman, born in Barranquilla. He studied Fine Arts at the National University of Bogotá. He traveled around the world from his native country to France, pbading through Morocco and arriving in Spain and, in particular, Las Ramblas de Barcelona . There, he portrayed for 38 years the faces of tourists who wanted to keep a good memory of their trip. In the future, he wants to settle in Capurganá, a small Colombian paradise embraced by the Amazon jungle and the Caribbean, on the border of Panama.

This is the drawing done by the artist:

The journalist Oriol Querol approached the artist to learn a little about his history , and that's what he published in his Twiiter about it:

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