Millares (book)

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Millares (book) by José-Augusto França. Publisher Cercle d’Art. 1991. With 418 reproductions including 71 in color. 26.4 x 27 cm, beige cardboard, illustrated folded jacket, 255 pages. Very good condition. French texts.

Painter of the Canaries, Manolo Millares, continues to nourish his work with the history of this place: the Canarian myths, the calcined mummies of the Gouanches, the cave paintings, but closer to us and especially in his first period, a certain surrealism inherited from André Breton who wrote there l’Amour fou.

Millares comes from a family of republicans who were persecuted during the Franco period and his work remains constantly underpinned by a certain tragedy, memory of destruction, hatred and death. Tragic of the first canvases tinged with expressionism, tragic of the tormented collages of the 50s made by means of fragments of sackcloth combined with violent touches of red, black and white, tragic of the Momunculus which could just as well evoke a state of being prior to man as a stage in the process of his disintegration…

In 1955 “the Hermit of Gran Canaria” joined Madrid and with other young artists, including Saura, disappointed by the sterility and provincial character of Spanish art, he founded the El Paso group, to which he wanted to imprint a certain subversive character artistically and politically.

Doesn’t he define himself as a “realist painter of the lineage of those who do not fear the beyond of reality”…

Feel free to check out the additional photos at the top left, thank you!

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