Manuel Felguérez

(Zacatecas, 1928 – Mexico City, 2020)

Niños de Morelia (Children in Morelia)

1986

oil on canvas

115 x 137 cm

Inv. no. CCB060

BBVA Collection Mexico



Manuel Felguérez combined different formal, architectural, material and technological methods in a unique style, endowing Mexican culture with a visual language that blends purity of abstraction and emotional intensity. There is a balance between weight and lightness in his paintings and graphic works, changing colours and proportions while always preserving his signature style. The geometry of nature and the mind, coupled with visual perception, materialised in a vocabulary of angles and volumes that Felguérez built in his quest for a new conceptual and emotional order. Manuel Felguérez endeavoured to instil a spiritual feeling into the object and matter, be it stone, clay, plaster, oil paint or watercolour.

Children in Morelia paid tribute to Spanish exiles on the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival in the port of Veracruz of the Sinai with the first Spanish refugees on board. This painting has an organic composition in which measured circular rhythms seemingly levitate over backgrounds with delicate chromatic harmonies.