This work was created at the moment when Juan Mieg’s painting began to garner critical acclaim. It was painted in the same year as he presented one of his first solo shows at Galería Mikeldi in Bilbao.

The experience Mieg had accumulated from his contact with Informalismo in Barcelona, his direct acquaintance with the avant-gardes on his trip to Paris, and finally his move to Madrid provided the ground base on which the artist predicated his own personal language. In his practice, he lent primordial importance to the treatment of matter and the perception of the painterly project as the act of bringing his spirit to light, while also as a form of liberating the unconscious. From that moment onwards, his process of creation would be sustained by these two lines of work, coupled with the weight the artist gives to the gaze of the beholder as the final step in the perception of the work.

In this oil painting one can acknowledge the noteworthy presence of his play with painterly matter, delineated by a kind of zoning or organisation of different planes, and the introduction of graphic motifs like the line and the point. The inclusion of these new elements in Mieg’s work is largely owing to his interest in , which enabled him to break away from the frontality of informel representation. All this, added to a treatment of colour full of nuanced tones and the prominence of deep blue, produces a painting that leaves no one indifferent.