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DEL HOMÚNCULO AL NEANDERTHALIO. La involución del ser humano según Manolo Millares

2013; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

1695-9884

José-Manuel García-Perera, Carmen Andreu-Lara,

Law, Ethics, and AI Impact

Following the Second World War, destruction becomes especially present in art. Europe is destroyed, and painting assumes this devastation as part of its essence. The homunculus, symbol of the degraded human body, spreads as an icon of suffering in Spain as well, where the Civil War and the postwar trigger destructive works of art. The painting of Manolo Millares speaks about degradation of man of his time. The painter proposes a new evolution that does not mean progress but decline: homunculus, antropofauna and neanderthalio are the three phases that the new broken man goes through in an uncertain way led by his moral degradation. With this account, Millares wants to awaken asleep conscience of his beloved human species.