Broto, José Manuel.
Works of the artist.
Aragonese painter that born in Zaragoza in 1949, whose work belongs to the neoabstract movement of the 70s and is considered one of the most important artists in the spanish contemporary art world. [+]
Broto, José Manuel
Aragonese painter born in Zaragoza in 1949, whose work belongs to the neoabstract movement of the 70s and is considered one of the most important artists in the spanish contemporary art world.
He estudied at the School of Fine Arts in Zaragoza until 1972 when he moved to Barcelona. He was a member of the Trama Group, along with Javier Rubio, Gonzalo Tena and Xavier Grau.
After the dissolution of the group, Broto was focused on pursuing abstract expressionism. However in the middle of the 80s he started to practice a neoabstraction related with the catalan school of the 70s, but with influences from his french group Support(s) – Surface(s). Consequently, his painting evolved significantly from 1970 to 1985. He began producing works with a minimalist touch, based on elemental geometric structures with flat monocrhrome fields, to a gestural or lyrical abstraction that combined abstract shapes with formal references. Though later he started creating geometric, organicist objects or signs taken from different languages such as writting, mathematics or music. His informalism was linked to color, while the expressive and emotional purposes became the result of a poetic and metaphisical reflection.
Throughout his life Broto has won different awards like the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (1995) or Premio ARCO of the Asociación de Críticos (1997), among other.
