Palencia, Benjamín Barrax (Albacete), 1894 - Madrid, 1980 Spanish painter. Formed in Madrid since 1909 in the Free Academy in July Moissy successive views of the Prado Museum, where he studied the work of El Greco, Velazquez and Zurbarn. Juan Ramon Jimenez, who he met in 1916, brought him into contact with intellectuals and artists close to the generation of 27. Of these years is the first style influenced by post-impressionism and Fauvism. In 1925 participates in the "Exhibition of Artists Iberian" and in 1926 began a stay of two years in Paris marked by knowledge of Cubism and Surrealism that, upon his return to Spain, led him to revisit the issue of the landscape from these approaches. Spanish land serves as a source of inspiration and occurs, on the one hand, a process that tends to esquematizacin abstracciny other hand, the utilization of complex shapes that come from surrealism. From the point of view of technique, the result is a somewhat matric painting which also uses the collage. Founded in 1927 with Alberto Vallecas School and in 1933 participated in the constructivist group led by Torres Garcia in Madrid. The work of this stage makes him one of the most important representatives in the forefront Spanish. At the end of the Civil War created the Second School of Vallecas and his style recover initial richness of color in the theme centrndose landscape.