do Rio. A Rieter porcelanas, em Sao Paulo, produz canecas J.Araujo. A Allied Domecq do Brasil escolheu para imagem do rotulo e da embalagem da colecao "Conhaque Domecq Espanha" criacoes de J. Araujo: o "Toureiro" ja lancado e a "Espanhola" e "Dom Quixote", com lancamento em edicao limitada a colecionadores. Esses sao alguns dos seus licenciados em produtos.Nos livros Brazilian Naif Art of Today e no recentemente lancado Brasil Naif, testemunho e patrimonio da humanidade, Araujo consta com suas pinturas. O livro escolar de portugues,Brasil Naif, 3a serie, tem arte de J.Araujo, com o titulo "Observe a tela de J.Araujo e de um nome a ela".Os cartoes de Natal da Unicef, cuja renda se destina as criancas carentes, levam as pinturas de J.Araujo para varias partes do mundo.Com seu atelier em Vargem Pequena e mencionado nos livretos e site da Riotur, J. Araujo recebe pessoalmente grupos de visitantes. No local, o visitante pode ver moveis, porcelananas, mosaicos, vidrarias, faiancas, porcelanas, alem de seus quadros.J. Araujo (Jonathas Araujo)Born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1940 - a self-made man.Left Bahia in 1948, when his parents decided to start a new life in Rio de Janeiro. Influenced by his mother, familiar with painting since her youth, he began his first brush strokes in 1957, at the age of 17. In Copacabana, he had the chance to meet and enjoy the company of painters, some of whom eventually became famous. They gathered in the bars along the beach in Sa Ferreira Street neighbourhood, where the young J. Araujo lived. There he made acquaintance with Jorge Beltrao, for him the first Brazilian marchand, who, delighted by J. Araujo's naive art, invited him to make an exhibition at Montmatre Jorge, a gallery he owned. That was J. Araujo's first one-man exhibition.From then on, he appeared in other galleries such as Petite Galerie, Bonino, Europa, Barchensky Jean Jacques, H. Stern, Amsterdam Sauer, among others, in Brazil and also abroad, like Flughafen Galerie-Frankfurt, Agora Gallery New York, Morges Art Gallery/Switzerland, Gallerie Susi Brunner/Zurich, etc.J. Araujo's works can be found in international museums such as Anatole Jakowisky in Nice, France, and the Musee de Pully, Morges, Switzerland, Bratslava Museum, in Central Europe, and the Museu Internacional de Arte Naif do Brasil, Rua das Laranjeiras, 561, Rio de Janeiro.His paintings are also present in commercial products of companies like Alladim Vacuum Bottles, USA/Brazil, Giftmugs in Florida, USA, and Abitmark, also in the US, which make mugs and panels of tiles decorated by J.Araujo, respectively. Table dinner sets, mousepads, notebooks large and small, naif posters and porcelain mugs, containing reproductions of J.Araujo's paintings, are sold in all TOCK&STOK outlets as well as in tourist points in Rio. Rieter porcelains in Sao Paulo produces J. Araujo's mugs. Allied Domecq do Brasil illustrated the recent Domecq Spain Collection with a bullfighter created by J. Araujo both on the bottle and the container, to be followed by two more images - the Flamenco woman-dancer and Dom Quixote for limited production destined to collectors. These are some examples of his licensed products for sale on the market.In books