In the exhibition dedicated by the Reina Sofía Museum and Art Center in Madrid, it is noted that the work of Manuel Ángeles Ortiz is difficult to classify. This same reflection is what he transferred to all his artistic work, for this reason it is difficult to classify it by inscribing it in a movement, or a specific aesthetic.

During the 1960s, Ortiz created his work Geometric Head, collecting interest in the human figure and compositional analysis. In this work these interests can be appreciated, but at the same time a surrealist heritage. The work of Manuel Ángeles Ortiz shows the same alternation of languages (late Cubism, line drawing and resounding and monumental volumes of classical inspiration, etc.), a symptom of the differ...