Juan González Alacreu (born 1937; Burriana, Castellón, Spain)
Juan González Alacreu was born in Castellón, Spain, in 1937. At the age of eight he began taking classes at the School of Arts and Crafts; With only sixteen he obtained a scholarship to study at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, where he had as teachers Sanchís Gago, Genaro Lahuerta and Bayarri.

He worked for many years in illustration for various publishers, including 'I Believe' and other independent publishing houses. In 1968, together with Frejo and Alfredo Sanchis Cortés, he formed the Art Studium team , dedicated to the production of illustrated children's books and series for the foreign market, including comic strips such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves for Once Upon A Time magazine. Other children's illustrations include Captain Hispania (1959) and Hansel and Gretel (1980).

After completing his stage as an illustrator, he dedicated himself entirely to painting. His work stands out for an art, where the purity of the drawing is the basis of his work, to later paint the light, the lights and the reflections, with vigorous brushstrokes, full of oil.

In his painting you can see a great influence of Valencian painters such as Sorolla. He has been an official painter of the Greater Fallera of Valencia for many years. His work has been exhibited in numerous art galleries and is in private collections around the world.

The female figure is in most of his paintings the protagonist of his paintings, although he always joined them, the Mediterranean landscape, the traditional scenes of Valencian life, both indoors, in activities of daily life and in his chores in the rice fields and the Albufera, either with clean, bright and overcast skies, so common in the region. Its theme is very diverse, arousing great expectation in its paintings of Valencian women, wearing the regional dress with great elegance, in these paintings, the great wealth of dresses and dressings can be appreciated with great realism.

It is obvious that he adores "his" landscape and is passionate about the light and customs of the Valencian Community, capturing it in his work, intelligently and intuitively in color, and with almost perfect plasticity. Some art experts,They have framed his work, within classicism-impressionism, with a notable influence from that of Joaquín Sorolla, especially in technique.

He is also a great portrait painter, painting great figures of Valencian society and politics. For many years he was the official painter of the major fallera in Valencia; These large portraits are exhibited in the Fallero Museum of that city. It is a popular custom in Fallas times, to visit its exhibition, already becoming a tradition of the festivals of that autonomous community.