20th-21st Century Spanish

Giralt completed his training in Paris and New York thanks to scholarships from Fundación Juan March, the Spanish Ministry for Culture and the Joint Spanish-American Committee. He also travelled to Holland, where his contacts with the were to exert such a huge influence on his work. Though Giralt began to paint in the late 1950s in a palette constrained to greys, he later developed his practice within the 1970s movement known as . That said, his highly subjective way of working also reveals the influence of Surrealism. In his later paintings he began to incorporate and also a geometrical organisation and organic forms, in a personal blend that produced a dramatic and lyrical tension.