José Porta Missé

José Porta Missé (* 1927 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish painter . Missé lives in Barcelona.

Porta Missé had his first contact with painting through his father, the portrait painter José Porta Galobart. Otherwise he learned to paint as an autodidact .

After the death of his father in 1958, he moved to Mallorca and lived in Cala Major . From that time on, surrealism was his style. Images were created, which mentally sprang from the underwater world, in strong green and blue tones.

In 1964 he left Mallorca and moved to Madrid . More devoted to the animal world, he painted a butterfly cycle. He moved unsteadily to Paris and on to London in the late 1960s . Again he changed his style and observed people more, with the result that ironically exaggerated and caricatured portraits were created. Still uneasy personally, he moved to Sitges in 1971 .

A new creative period began in 1977 after visiting the exhibition From Constructivism to Concrete Art in Berlin . This referred to constructivism and the reduction to simple geometric shapes, with the human being remained the focus. In 1978 he returned to Barcelona.

In 1994 he created three works with more than two square meters. He dedicated them to War, Fire and Plague and named them Rwanda , Pollution and AIDS .

Web links

• Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung / Episode 52-12 from December 31, 2011
• Pictures of the artist. artnet.com, accessed December 3, 2015 . 
• Description of the artist