Trained at the Valencia Art College, Genovés was always an inquiring painter, concerned both with the need to renovate Spanish art and also with the function of art and the artist in society.

His firm conviction that art was transforming, and his concern for his environment lead him to join several important movements in the post war Spanish art scene: Los Siete (The Seven) 1949, Parpallós (1956) and Hondo (1960). It was in this last group that presented a new approach to figurative painting opposing Informalism, that Genovés developed a style of painting that was expressionist and provocative.

During the sixties Genovés had a creative crisis, which he got over quickly. He became very involved in the opposition movements of th...