Ràfols-Casamada is widely viewed as one of the benchmarks and pioneers of , a style to which he evolved following his previous figurative phase. Art historians consider his output from the fifties onwards as the most compelling in his life’s work.

In the seventies, his painting shifted to an aesthetic based on an expansion of chromatic effects in different spaces. At once, the composition is simplified with the use of vertical or horizontal fragmentations, though without renouncing an overall balance between colour and form by means of a soft chromatic unity and agile, delicate brushwork. In this regard, his work gives off a sense of calm serenity. In it the lines and planes are not architectural elements, nor do they create volumes; it is the delicate balance between form and colour that holds the composition together.

The nature Ràfols-Casamada engages with in his work is artificial, removed from reality. Taking it merely as a reference, the artist envisages his own universe which he controls and dominates at will. As he said himself, it is all about “making the colour speak in its own language”.