This piece is particularly interesting because it is one of the few works by this artist in which a geometric figure is at the centre of the composition. Indeed, at this time Freixanes worked with archaic figures in more diluted and organic forms.

After studying Fine Arts in Bilbao and Madrid, in the early 1980s he joined the group of practitioners from Galicia in the Atlánticagroup. After a period of matter-based practice and another one defined by expressionistic figuration with German influences, his composition became more stylised, with drawing and signs coming to the fore. His contact with the works of Joan Miró (1893-1983) and Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), and the importance of his Galician roots and of primitive and archaic forms of art in his work have made Freixanes a rather atypical artist, reflective and removed from changing fashions and movements.

Forma cúbica opens a series from the 1990s titled Dona do Pazo, to which Figuras cúbicas, a similar painting belonging to the Banco de España Collection, also belongs. The series is based on the relationships between an anthropomorphic figure and the place or receptacle containing it, adopting a diversity of forms and gradually resolved more like an area of colour than a geometric figure.

A surface of translucent colour is arranged against a white background, and a prism is drawn in it, with the edges negating the consistency and perfection one supposes a geometric solid ought to possess. The fragile and soft contours seem to be unable to contain the overflowing viscose liquid.