The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

Miquel Barcelo is a boyish Spanish painter from Majorca who paints large-scale works with thick, paint-encrusted surfaces with powerful images of nature often seen from an elevated point of view. His seemingly abstract paintings become allegorical as animal carcasses and splitting fruits emerge.  Some viewers translate the meanings of the somewhat grotesque works to (showing 500 of 1228 characters).