JOSÉ BELMAR MARTÍNEZ (Alicante, 1945-2013)."Composition".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Size: 54 x 64 cm; 77 x 89 cm (frame).He was a painter who breathed freedom, and who was not pigeonholed by any artistic movement. And only if he was asked on occasion would he perhaps acknowledge some influence of the master of masters, the Alicante-born Emilio Varela, even though his paintings moved more towards expressionism, and not so much towards the poetic echoes of Varela.He studied drawing and painting at the Escuela Oficial de BB.AA de San Fernando in Alicante. He has worked as a plastic arts teacher at the CAM and at the Fontcalent Penitentiary Centre and has been doing this job in a private academy since 1970 until now. He has also been the producer of the art programme "Luz Verde" on Radio Antena 3 and founder of the art collective "Espardenya".