In this work it is the word that leads us to the figure. The abstract composition is organised around the idea conveyed by its title: a door in spring, dominated by expressive, vibrant colouring.

It is obvious that the artist is familiar with American and with the French movement, which gave rise to so-called

 Pintura-pintura 

 or New Abstraction; the main representative of this trend in Spain was the

 Trama Group 

a group of artists founded in 1974 around the magazine with the same name. Made up by four painters (José Manuel Broto, Xavier Grau, Javier Rubio and Gonzalo Tena) and a writer (Federico Jiménez Losantos), this multidisciplinary group defended the act of painting in opposition to the conceptual trend then in vogue in Catalonia, and as an alternative to the new figuration that was also gaining force in the art scene at the time.

(1973-78), of which Broto (1949) was one of the leading members. It rejected all superficial elements and concentrated on visual language in its highest degree of purity. Here the artist’s palette is dominated by primary colours, presented in a pure, expressive form, almost without gradations, colouring the various planes of the composition.

Freedom and resolute gesturality are the essential features of this work. It is a door through which we can enter a spring “landscape”, perhaps at dusk, when the first April flowers appear, covering the fields with beautiful colours, with no set pattern, in a total expression of the freedom of nature.