Manuel Ángeles Ortiz (Jaén, January 13, 1895-Paris, April 4, 1984) was a Spanish painter, set designer and ceramist belonging to the generation of '27.
It constitutes a reference both for artists who travel to Paris and for those who work in the peninsula, mainly due to its collaborations with Litoral magazine.
Through a hundred works, this retrospective exhibition addresses the production of Ángeles Ortiz beyond the 1930s.
Since his first stay in Paris, Pablo Picasso's mark on his work is profound.
Considered an artist of difficult stylistic classification, his work presents - since his independence - a strong experimental will and a complete rejection of abstract painting.
The persistence of the landscape and the human figure from the 1950s onwards coexists with twists that lead to compositional analysis (La casa de los Dávila, 1957; Cabeza Geometrica, 1960; Homenaje al Greco, 1975; Albaicín, 1982).
selected works
Albaicín
Oil on canvas