Miguel de Miguel - El General

Miguel de Miguel – International Plastic Artist*

Miguel is a Spanish plastic artist who began his career in 1980 and has developed a solid and emotionally intense career, recognized worldwide. He has exhibited in cities such as New York, Hong Kong, Paris, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City, and his work is part of some of the most important international collections. He currently lives and creates in Italy.

His painting combines figuration and abstraction with a language of its own, where vibrant color, symbolic forms, and deep textures speak of identity, memory, and inner silence. Faceless figures, symbolic natures, and scenes suspended in time compose a poetic and sensitive universe.

With more than four decades of creation, Miguel de Miguel offers a body of work that is not only observed but experienced from the most intimate. An art that crosses borders, styles, and words.

El General
In The General, the figure of authority is subjected to an operation of symbolic emptiness. The portrait, built from fragmented geometry and an almost hieratic frontal, reveals a divided subject: the axial line that crosses the face does not organize but exposes the internal fissure of identity.

The chromaticism intensifies this reading. The reds —in the hair, the nose, and the shadows— activate a pulsional dimension that overflows the rigidity of the uniform, while the blue background contains the scene in a distant silence. The green of the cap introduces a dissonant note that accentuates the overall instability.

The decorations, executed as signs rather than details, lose their narrative function to become empty emblems. In front of them, the gesture —downcast eyes, a barely sustained smile— shifts the image toward the territory of the tragic clown: a figure where representation substitutes for essence.

Thus, The General does not affirm power; it exposes it as artifice. Authority appears here as a fatigued mask, sustained by the inertia of its own symbols.

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