Francisco is not a painter by profession. He graduated in Humanities at the University of Jaén in 1999, and was there where he began to forge his career as an archaeologist, an activity that occupies most of the time now and living. His dream was to be an archaeologist small and he did it with determination and effort. His career has been in numerous excavations in the provinces of Jaen and Almeria. But with his passion for archeology is also painting. Has signed numerous oil paintings, many of them gifts for friends, some commissions and other expression of his talent and personal need to transfer to paper or oil your thoughts and emotions. Francisco working on tracks from his personal universe. Portrays Kim Gordon, bassist for one of his favorite bands, Sonic Youth. Makes a very special and personal version of the Patio de los Leones in the Alhambra, and backs of the same scene in different colors, always through the prism of his original and unusual technique. Also favors the geometry in various tables, weaving a tangled brush with the skeleton of straight lines, curves, spirals, diamonds ..., which gives his compositions a touch of 'tetris' psychedelic. These works based collage of shapes connected especially with the youth and students, as many of them have made sure that such compositions in pasta sheets and notebooks and folders during soporific hours, both high school and college. The novelty in this type of composition is that Francisco Arias took them to a format less 'underground' that piece of paper or recycled paper. Addition the size of the oils are applied to them their special color treatment: the element where the author gets his personality. His technique is to create different colors with chromatic scales, looking like an "archaeologist" of pigments those shades you need to get the texture, volume, or the profile you are looking for your pictures. The color is the speaker. The color in her work is modern. The color in his work is scientific. His style despite being orthodox in terms of materials and tools used, it is very contemporary, because it leads to the field of traditional painting and ways of working elements from the structure and form of working computer programs for graphic design and photoshop. Even goes further to demonstrate that the concept of 'pixel' is a technological evolution that comes from traditional painting and Francisco Arias demonstrated its ability to achieve optical effects in his works, through its own grid of color patches. Thanks to technology, engineering and other media such as computer screen we have the opportunity to taste the visual and graphic art, but the author jienense gives us the opportunity to see results of what could be a creation of graphic design but finished the old fashioned way: palette, easel and brush. Since I met the author at the age of four classmates and teachers all grasp that Francisco Arias had a special talent for painting, probably inherited from his father, also sporadic oil painter and illustrator most magnificent regular pens. Paco was seeing original paint their pictures when I came to the conclusion that there is no need to have a painting by Renoir, Degas, veem, Warhol, Gordillo, Goya and Velázquez to own a private collection. Surely anyone who wants to start one, have unique items of great sentimental value and sometimes material, whether the picture of a friend or a drawing of a family that has not ended as a painter, but now someone important. I have a and two pieces in my collection: Mesamadero caricature and a painting by Francisco Arias. Who knows if someday we do not get lucky friends that we have a picture of 'Paquito' a phone call from an art gallery, a dealer or just a cultural institution given our table to ask us for an exhibition. This will be if his work achieves fame by one of the vagaries of world art, sometimes not so much about the quality of the author and other personal preferences of someone with decision-making or marketing policies. Many painters, poets, sculptors and painters with enormous talent, and were never given or will-to know. Only those close to him he recognized its artistic value, but no less importance and value the author. His paintings are unique and represent a special talent to express his inner self through painting. Therefore, we are fortunate to everyone who can see the works of Francisco Arias de Haro. Now I've started collecting and I already have a Mesamadero and Francisco Arias not mind an Edward Hopper, if not ask for much: I think so! Jose Manuel Cumin