20^th Century Spanish
 
González de la Serna began studying art at the early age of nine at the Academy of Fine Arts in Granada, before continuing his training at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts of Madrid. During his time in Madrid he had several exhibitions, including his first solo show at Ateneo de Madrid in 1917.

With an inquisitive and restless spirit, always in search of new modes of expression, his painting shifted between Impressionism, —although never reaching abstraction—and a figuration veering towards Expressionism, imbued with an underlying poetic sense influenced by his close connection with the authors of the Generation of ’27. An example of these bonds is the fact that he illustrated Impresiones y paisajes, the first book published by Federico García Lorca, a childhood friend.

He returned to Andalusia in 1918 and remained there until 1921, when he moved to Paris. There he was represented by Galerie Paul Guillaume and was a member of the .

His work has been exhibited in galleries in Brussels, Berlin, Prague, Mexico, Denmark, London and New York. In 1963 cerebral palsy made it impossible for him to continue painting, and he died five years later.