Personaje caído I

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Manolo Millares (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1926 - Madrid, 1972), one of the leading representatives of Informalism and a fundamental figure in Spanish painting of the second half of the 20th century. Millares was born on 17 February 1926 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on Ash Wednesday, which marked the end of Carnival. From childhood, he was fascinated by the books on Canarian history belonging to his great-grandfather and by his visits to the Museo de Arte Canario, where he discovered the material remains of the Guanche cultures, the original peoples of the Atlantic islands: the signs on their pintaderas and the embalmed bodies in their burial sites.