Manuel
Millares
Born
in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1926
He
studied on his own and spontaneously, encouraged by the
fact that he belonged to a family of intellectual
prodigies (his brother, Agustin, being an excellent poet),
among whom intellect had always been carefully tended.
After
adventuring into figurative painting at an early age, he
was brought into contact with the avant-garde through
surrealism. It was not long, however, before his
individual Philo-surrealism came under the masterly
influence of Joan Miro. Millares’ “Canary Island
Pictographs” are his juvenile and personal
interpretation of the graphic masterpieces of the great
master himself.
Then he engaged in work, which is expressionist rather
than non-formalist, because the way he treats the
substances in his painting has an existential and
explanatory aim, which goes beyond any problem concerning
the substance itself.
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