The Factory Publishing published a gallery of unpublished drawings of priests signed by the Canary artist Manolo Millares.
La Fabrica Editorial published a gallery of unpublished drawings of priests signed by the artist Manolo Millares Gran Canaria. A total of 45 drawings, and made great majority unpublished for 50 years as 'The Thousand Cures', co-edited by the Fundacion Antonio Perez, the Community of Castilla La Mancha and La Fabrica Editorial.
An index of priests, where there are the technical details of each picture, as well as the texts of the artist and collector and writer Antonio Perez Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald complete the book.
The priests were painted between 1960 and 1964, shortly before the dispersion of the group El Paso. Work Thousands clandestine development creating this gallery of portraits gloomy proposed discussing the struggle between those who proclaim the freedom and thwart those who, as highlighted in the text Caballero Bonald.
Cures dark
Ghostly caricature
In his drawings reflected these characters are dark, ghostly, carried caricature, mean, seemingly threatening, disturbing appearance and attitudes, which represent the darkest side of the memory of a country.
The drawings are made with paint and ink on paper and collage. They dominated the hegemony of black, gray and ocher accompanied by on the white surface which sometimes are labeled by the cuttlefish, which recalls the work that characterized the work of thousands in the '70s.
Manuel Millares Sall (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1926 - Madrid, 1972), better known as Manolo Millares, was a painter and engraver, co-founder of El Paso in 1957. In the beginning he paints landscapes, paintings of figures and self whose style is reminiscent of Van Gogh, dedicated since 1959 to abstract painting.
Perforated bags
Thousands performed his works with leaky bags, sacking and ropes in which objects hit taken from the trash. The cited materials were then covered with layers of dripping paint, black, white and red.
From the ten years begins to opt for painting and it was his contact with artists and Martin Chirino Felo Monzon what was dragging this work. In 1945 began to show and be within the artistic circle of the time,Montano_is_very_positive_experiencey, becoming, in 1950,UGT_and_CCOO_urging_thes, the main driver of the group LADAC (Los Arqueros del Arte Contemporaneo), being on a par, director of the art collection of monographs' The Archers'.
The First American Art Biennial, held in 1951, is the final encounter of the work of Millares with contemporary artistic reality of that time, happens all the exhibitions in different Spanish cities and abroad. Manolo Millares's work is represented, from the decade of the sixties, some of the most important contemporary art museums in the world.
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