Manolo Millares: El Pintor de Las Arpilleras / The Painter of the Burlap - Hardcover

by Aitor Quiney (Author), Lluís Farré (Illustrator)

Manolo Millares was born in the lullaby of the sea of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. As a child, he enjoyed the beauty of the beaches and drew the reefs of his archipelago. As an adult, he became the most transgressive and innovative painter of the Canary Islands. Millares was self-formed, and for that reason his idea of art knew no limits. His paintings became famous for experimenting with ceramics, serigraphy, engravings and etchings, but it was with hessian canvases that he found the best way to express the landscapes of his life, showing the world that opened up before his eyes and telling his own story through art.

Author Biography

Aitor Quiney (Las Palmas, 1966) has a PhD in Art History, a degree in Humanities, a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management and Policies, a Diploma in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, specializing in graphic documents and antique books, and a degree in Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts, specializing in graphic documents and antique books.

A writer and an illustrator, Lluís Farré was born and still lives in Barcelona. He started his professional career in 1993, mostly in children's literature. Although most of his books have been published in Spain and in it's four languages, some have also been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Korean and Tibetan. Lluís recently started to publish in the United States, and he also had a very special book published by the Tibetan Government in exile.