20^th Century Spanish

After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts in Zaragoza, Broto first came to notice in the mid 1970s in the company of Javier Rubio and Gonzalo Terna with whom he founded the , a collective of artists that brought the aesthetic postulates of the French movement to Spain, reintroducing abstraction among the younger generations.

In his early stages as an artist he created large-format paintings, on which he spread large areas of colour coupled with a refined orientalist approach in terms of the clarity and lyricism of the content of the signs, combining the randomness of the drips with a calculated effect. He later started to work the whole surface of the picture with highly diversified techniques. The result was greater depth, enhanced by lights that have been defined as stellar, and a dense and mysterious atmosphere. In 1991 he dedicated part of his work to two great Spanish mystics: St John of the Cross and Ramón Llull, the 13th century philosopher and poet from Mallorca.

In 1995, he was awarded the National Visual Arts Prize, in 1997 the ARCO Award from the Spanish Association of Art Critics, and in 2003 the Goya Printmaking Award.