The death in Madrid of the painter, engraver and musician Manuel Alcorlo (Madrid, 1935) deprives Spanish artistic vitality of one of its most humane and talented protagonists. With a prodigious plastic imagination, he enjoyed such a broad artistic personality that he did not see himself assigned to or abducted by any pictorial school. . The excellent draftsman, who was 91 years old, considered “drawing as an essential framework for Painting,” as he confessed. He knew how to deploy with pleasant ease all the kinetics that the tectonics of drawing provides to Art. A connoisseur Conventionalism would define him as a figurative painter with an expressionist style, to whose work he added flashes of refined surrealism.
