Madrid
He studied at Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas school, where as a child he was encouraged to develop his drawing skills. In 1921, at the age of eleven, the painter Marceliano Santa María discovered him painting from life in the Cuatro Caminos roundabout, ensuring that in 1922 he entered as a student in section IX of the School of Arts and Crafts of Madrid, where he obtained until 1925 all the extraordinary awards of the career. However, in 1926 he was failed in the entrance exams to the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. He collaborated as an illustrator in different newspapers and magazines, including El Socialista, being named artistic director of the Rex advertising agency in 1929. Starting in 1930 he began to attend various competitions and exhibitions, including the National Fine Arts, where in that year he presented a "Self-portrait" that would surprise the Jury. For this he obtained a travel bag that he would dedicate to traveling through Andalusia, painting numerous landscapes and popular scenes. It was in 1934 when he held his first individual exhibition at the Los Amigos del Arte society. In that same year he married the painter Juana Francisca Rubio "Paquita" (Madrid, 1911-2008), obtaining a Second Medal at the National Exhibition with a portrait of his wife. In 1935 he traveled through France, Belgium, Holland and England thanks to a scholarship awarded with the Legacy of the Count of Cartagena, exhibiting in 1936 the work created, already upon his return, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He again attended the National that year (with the oil painting "La Retirada", which represented a scene from the First World War), and when his work was going to be awarded the First Medal, the Civil War broke out. During those years he actively participated in propaganda sections of the Republican side through the La Gallofa workshop, of the Unified Socialist Youth, which he founded and directed, being recognized since then as one of the best and most prolific poster artists. In 1939, after the war and after passing through the French concentration camp of Argelés, he went with his family to Mexico on the SINAIA ship. During the days that the voyage lasted he collaborated, along with Germán Horacio and Ramón Peinado, illustrating the Sinaia newspaper that was published on board the ship1. In the following years, he would develop intense work through numerous exhibitions, collaborations in magazines and teaching painting classes. There he founded, in 1945 and together with other Spanish and Mexican painters, the Círculo de Bellas Artes de México, which he would come to preside over. In 1960 he returned definitively to Spain, where he continued to exhibit his work and receive numerous national and international awards in recognition of his artistic career, although he never managed to occupy the academic chair for which he several times was proposed. On June 30, 1979 he died in Madrid due to a myocardial infarction. In 1984, special tribute was paid to him through a large anthological exhibition in Madrid organized by the Banco de Bilbao, and later, in 1986, with another at the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid. In 2011, in Salamanca and under the title "Bardasano in War", another large exhibition was organized by the Ministry of Culture about his work linked to the Spanish Civil War, with his propaganda posters as the main axis.
Madrid
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