Javier Clavo is a self-taught painter and sculptor, who spends his youth painting and attending the Círculo de Bellas Artes, which will be the artist's true school.
Self-taught, Javier Clavo should be described as an expressionist artist in whose work the use of color provokes emotions that appeal to the deepest feelings.
He held his first individual exhibition in 1930 at the Vizcaíno gallery in Valencia, the city to which he moved with his family, although the outrage to a career far from fashion occurred in 1990, when the Villa de Madrid Cultural Center honored him. with an anthology that had no critical reflection other than in a Madrid newspaper.
Clavo was a prolific painter, who also had a career as a sculptor, in which influences from Goya, Picasso, El Greco, Matisse and Bonnard are traced, to name just a quintet of painting geniuses from all eras.
selected works
Bodegón
1968
Oil on canvas (122x203)