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M ª José Aguilar was born in Seville in 1964, in the central district of San Lorenzo. His childhood and early youth run between his native city, the bay of Cadiz and the mountains of Jaén. From an early age manifested artistic inclinations and skills supplied by a mercy environment. Growing up admiring the great masters of Spanish painting especially Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, Valdés Leal, ...
1983:
- He began his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville.
- In November, he traveled to Italy, where he first made a dream: to observe closely the work of the great Italian masters.
1984:
- Decides to initiate parallel studies in the School of Arts and Crafts in the same city, in an effort to expand knowledge in other artistic areas.
1988:
-Get a degree in the Branch of Painting at the University of Seville.
- After traveling for four months in Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Morocco, where returns determined to continue their postgraduate studies.
- In the month of December for the first time traveling to Vancouver (Canada).
1989:
- In spring visit Holland, where specifically the city of Amsterdam, an ongoing point of return for them in subsequent years. Feels an undeniable admiration for the thoroughness of the Flemish, which along with the Seville Baroque painting and sculpture lay the foundation for further production. Two artists will leave it an indelible mark on this first trip: Rembrandt and Van Goh.
- In July, the opposition adopted to obtain Added title High School Teacher of Drawing.
- That summer, back from Vancouver in Canada and start a long tour through the state of British Columbia and Alberta, where they can admire the unique beauty of its landscapes, will have the opportunity to interact with small pockets of indigenous tribal population, supporters an important artistic production, full of content and traditional craftsmanship.
In turn, ensure that the wealth of this country had made important and serious developments in new technologies, well above those of other countries and that, when applied to the artistic, were assuming a revolution not only in form, but also in the artistic concepts. Canadian avant-garde art ran in another direction rather unlike anything seen before.
1990:
- The teaching, the logical efforts of any doctor to materialize the idea of an investigation, if focused on the development of artistic creativity, prevent him from engaging more fully to what you really want: paint.
His concern that dominate the paint job has is paramount. Aware that only an iron discipline and will allow you to achieve this first goal achievement will reaffirm its position in the realism, making the figure the central theme of his work.
1991:
- A domestic accident destroys virtually all of the work, the result of the first steps of his artistic journey. This year, as the two successive occurring between his native Seville, (that last detail to commemorate the V Centenary of the Discovery of America), Holland, France and Canada.
1992:
- Inauguration of the Exhibition in Seville. The city is a constant hive of cultural exchanges that are dreaming up new projects that are foreign.
1993:
- In his personal life happen a number of crucial facts that will determine a significant change in the order of their priorities and projects, forcing her to forget about and inevitably delay and others.
Later, he had to abandon the practice of teaching, but did any obstacle it away from his artistic work, whose work remains involved in the today.