THE CRITICS SPEAK

Dear friend Morales:
I was at the Gallery where you were exhibiting your drawings and sculptures and was surprised by the vitality and personality of your work.
Your drawings are typical of a sculptor with tight lines, highlighting volume and movement.
Your terra-cotta sculptures are warm, they have composition and harmony, they fit in well spatially and do not leave anyone feeling indifferent.
Now I think I understand how the work that you do so efficiently as the Deputy Director of this Museum, makes up part of your environment and inspiration.

Xavier de Salas
Director of the Prado Museum
Madrid 1980

Javier Morales, as well as being a sculptor and artist, is the Director of the Museums of Crown Heritage in Spain.
Throughout his professional stay in the Vatican Museums we were able to enjoy his explanations and analysis of classic and modern sculpture and of many works of art which he thoroughly understands and from which he has learnt so much as a sculptor.
His sculptures are both classic and modern, with the unmistakably original mark of a great artistic personality. His excellent terra-cotta and bronze works are full of strength and sensitivity, energetic and delicate at the same time.
The sculptures of Javier Morales are destined to be great sculptural compositions on which he can display his wide ranging cultural and technical knowledge.

Carlo Pietrangeli
Director of the Vatican Museums
Rome 1989

His sculptures possess the difficult beauty of a passionate creation yet are full of eternal elegance. Form and space dominates and there is a harmonious contrast of smooth and rugged surfaces. Javier Morales transmits a powerfully expressive strength, in a rare combination of classicism and a restless struggle. The clay becomes huge in his hands. Each sculpture has their own size although some may enlarge their shape in space. Everything is balanced. Emotion and harmony. What it is and what is missing, what it is and what it expresses.
Javier Morales dominates the material, strokes it, moulds it, liberates it, instructs it. The play on form becomes light in his hands. Old symbolism rests in the clay and the sculptor reinvents its beauty.
Some of his works are screaming out to emerge into the air and become a gigantic dream, because hidden in the sculptures of Morales, in the humbleness of the clay, lies the secret ambition of the monument.

Mario Antolin
Art Critic

Sculpture comes from the soul. Javier Morales is an expert in History of Art and his vast knowledge is expressed in the volume and movement of his sculpture. It is like a personal School of Fine Arts. He knows the body, rhythm and gestures. He is a creative poet of very elaborate bodies. His women express the softness and strength of biblical women. The men are dryer and show more nervousness. These are characters that are looking into themselves and try to express millenary energy to the spectator. Javier will take huge steps forward.

Alberto Schommer
Writer and Photographer

Javier Morales is imaginative with a very expressive realist expression. He sculpts delving into the inside of his characters. He has exquisite intimate works, expressionists caressing female bodies. His sculptures are full of life and have the value of monuments.

Antonio Cobos
Dean of the Spanish Association of Art Critics
(AECA)

The women of the great sculptor Javier Morales are essentially feminine, delicate in their shape and posture, maternal or sensual and seductive, always elegant.
Man emerges from Nature, strong with the spirit of Mother Earth. As always, his compositions are exquisite.
Javier Morales, in all his splendor with his gigantic expressions of great personality, proportion and feeling.

Conchita de Kindelán
Art Critic

The bronze and terra-cotta sculptures of Javier Morales arise from the deep reflection and feeling that the spectator transmits. Their proportions, anatomy, vitality, attitudes appear with the vigor of the wisdom of their compositions. Their figures have spiritual and material impetus.

Elena Florez
Art Critic

The sculptor Javier Morales is a symbol through which the most intimate emotions and most essential experiences can be expressed. His male and female bodies surge out of the Earth with emotion. His works are monumental.

Sol Garcia - Conde
Art Critic