Manolo Millares

Manolo Millares
Born	January 17, 1926(1926-01-17) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Died	August 14, 1972(1972-08-14) (aged 46) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Field	Painting
Movement	Abstract art

Manolo Millares (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, 17 January 1926-Madrid, 14 August 1972) was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist, Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953, he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter. In 1957, Millares along with Antonio Saura and Pablo Serrano founded the avant-garde group El Paso (The Step) in Madrid. He attained an international reputation by the early 1960s, and had a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in 1961.

In Madrid, Millares was associated with ‘The Informalists’, a group of artists including Antoni Tàpies, Enrique Tábara, Antonio Saura, Aníbal Villacís among many others who insisted that art should be removed from theory and concept. To these artists, the gesture used to make a painting was all-important. In the 1950s, Millares began to make dramatic collages from found materials especially burlap.

External links

• Manolo Millares complete retrospective review

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Name	Millares, Manolo
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Date of birth	17 January 1926
Place of birth	Las Palmas, Canary Islands
Date of death	14 August 1972
Place of death	Madrid, Spain