As an artist, Joan Claret eschews all improvisation. His paintings, and indeed also his watercolours and prints, are the result of a thoroughly meditated composition whose goal is to define space. A space that, inasmuch as something that has been defined by man, is always connected to architecture.
 
In the work at hand, Claret articulated an unreal space, defined —following the architectural simile— by straight and curved linear areas that function as buttresses, main beams, imagined archways and interconnected labyrinths.
 
For Claret, the line was the primordial element, “just like the notes in the stave for a musician.” In his works on canvas the line is defined by a contrast between areas modulated by various shades of grey and blue, with the latter being used to highlight specific areas of the composition.
 
Claret is an artist who strived to get to the very essence, armed with a well thought-out method and elegance in the form.