Pablo Sycet is an Andalusian painter and designer who played an active part in the movida, the eighties Madrid-based counterculture movement. In 1982 he founded the Ciudad Diseño studio in Granada with the painter Julio Juste (1952).

Like other artists of his generation, Sycet has been associated with American . He is particularly interested in the colour spreading used by artists like Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) in their work. However, he has also been decisively influenced by the line and lyricism of French painting, personified by Claude Monet (1840-1926), as well as by the work of contemporary Spanish painters —José Guerrero (1914-1991), Jordi Teixidor (1941) and Albert Ràfols-Casamada (1923-2009)— whose colour and painterly expression are his main source of inspiration.

This work is related to the Abstract Impressionism of the American painter Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) and to Monet’s Water Lilies. The use of acid yellow, pink, green and purplish tones contrasts with the black of the vertical strokes, which creates tension in the landscape. One perceives a certain figurative element based on agitated brushstrokes of vibrant colour, applied in all directions, conveying a sensory experience to the viewer.