This group, consisting of Manuel Valdés and Rafael Solbes, remained active until the latter’s death. It arose in opposition to the poetics of Informalismo and , introducing a figurative style with echoes of , through which it critically analysed Spanish social and political reality and art history.
 
In the seventies, besides creating many posters and silkscreens, they also produced many multiples. Although conceived as a series, given that they all used the same mould which was generally made in cardboard, each one was nevertheless painted differently, thus channelling the free creative expression of the artists. Skewing the usual conventions for serialised artwork, they gave each piece an aesthetic singularity somewhere between a multiple and a unique piece.
 
These “boxes” from 1973, Tanguy y las banderas and Café, copa y puro, together with others from the same year, provide evidence of a strong connection with Surrealism and in terms of the represented elements. In the case of the first of the two, a homage to the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy (1900-1955), with an arrangement of his signature soft forms which are “Spanishised” with the intrusion of the Spanish flag. In the case of the second work, recalling Picasso’s and Braque’s still lifes, it includes newspaper clippings to give the work the desired critical reality. Both pieces were printed at the Ibero-Suiza silkscreen workshop which was famous at the time for the quality of its printing and for its commitment with the diffusion of the abstract-based culture of the time.