The output of this artist from Valencia can be divided into various series which are nevertheless interconnected across time, even though the themes and the style have gradually modified over the course of recent decades.

In the seventies, during his formative years, divided between his training in Valencia and his time spent in Paris, one can readily detect the coexistence of various visual and plastic influences that would mark the course of his later work: the expressionist manners of the beginning of the decade, the traces of pop culture and his engagement with geometry, further enhanced by occasional contacts with the movement. The semantic purification of his practice is reflected in expressiveness, neofiguration and , in linguistic styles that would, in one way or another, set the tone for all his later production and would provide constants that linked his various suites of work in which landscape, figuration and a more intimate quality would gradually gain ground.

It was back in the seventies when Javier Calvo began to implement his constructivist poetics, and these works belonging to the BBVA collection are from that period. His output from that time is full of green, violet, pink and orangey yellow colours, but also more muted tones of grey, blue and ochre, in compositions whose titles contained a symbolic intentionality.

His use of geometry generates pictorial spaces in which his ordering of lines and forms creates varying symmetries, accentuates perspectives and elaborates modules which he combines in different positions. The differing geometric figures are subjected to a structural analysis and transformation that enables him to create compositions by experimenting with the tension, centrality and dispersion of the volumes. The forms are coupled together to create labyrinths, are folded over one another and intertwined to enhance the depth of a constructive universe.