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Manuel Millares
Painter
Spain
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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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