Modest Cuixart (Barcelona, ??1925-Palafurgell 2007) is one of the most important artists in the national and international scope has given the Spanish state. In 1944 he started studying medicine abandonardos years later to be completely devoted to painting. In 1948 contact with the poet Joan Brossa Pony, and later with the philosopher Arnau Puig and painters and Joan Antoni Tpies Tharrats, who founded the magazine "Dau al Set." This vanguard group, the first in the country AFTER the Civil War, is a hymn to freedom and modernity, drowned at the time of the dictatorship. His work, between the dreamlike and surreal, shows a particular world and proper that have developed along their life path. Cuixart s basic has been a landmark in the world of creation in the twentieth century. Its recognition as a spur to the modern and avant-garde has been worldwide, as has been the group "Dau al Set" as one of the most important artistic movements of the century XX.