The vibrant lighting in this work is owing to Juste’s vigorous, energetic and even violent brushstroke, in constant motion.

The views of cities, and more specifically of Granada, where Julio Juste began his career as an artist, are common currency in his output, even though he favoured a more abstract vernacular in his early stages.

This artist draws inspiration from US , a language he assimilated second-hand through Spanish artists such as José Guerrero (1914-1991), Zóbel (1924-1984) and Ràfols-Casamada (1923-2009). His paintings are always very colourful, making use of a palette with marked contrasts, combining warm and cold hues, even though in this particular case he adheres to primary colours.

This painting, made in 1981-82, when the artist was on a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, depicts a yellow bridge emphatically organising the composition. The devil’s bridge has no limits, continuing beyond the edge of the canvas in both directions. The yellow is a clear reference to the aforementioned . The bridge is painted against a red sky, probably alluding to the title —the colours of the devil and of hell— while the landscape is in blues and blacks highly reminiscent of José Guerrero, with large successive and limited areas of colour, which transmit the feeling of an enclosed space while at once avoiding the dispersion of colour within the painting.