Map of Spain

Broto, since his beginnings in the 1970s, would strongly defend painting versus Conceptual Art, which had exiled traditional media. He would become one of the greatest exponents of what was known as Pintura-pintura which proposed that the two dimensions of the canvas constituted the ideal space for artistic representation. This piece was painted by Broto during the first year of his stay in Paris after ending his Barcelona era and joining a group of Spanish painters in the French capital which included Barceló, Campano, Sicilia, and Carmen Calvo. As J. M. Bonet remarks, the more exiled pieces that Broto ever painted are those which include the silhouette of the Iberian Peninsula, the skin of the bull, as their motif. In a certain way, this is a projection of Spanish lament. In the case of this painting, over the black and brown silhouette of the Peninsula is a schematic presentation of the landform, with mountains and rivers. In other paintings of this series, sabers and stairs would be presented.