The work of Broto, significantly influenced in its beginnings by the collective French Suport-Surfacemagazines Tel Quel  and Peinture, cahiers théoriques among other publications, and especially by the theoretical writings of Marcelin Pleynet and abstract expressionism, has also been related to some postulates minimalist; in fact he is one of the greatest exponents of the call Painting-painting, and therefore one of the artists who has claimed the abstraction versus figuration and conceptual art. Always considered that the two-dimensional of the canvas were the ideal setting for artistic representation, creating in their work space that is able to cause endless reminiscences and suggestions by means of compositions deliberately abstract. Broto dispenses with the largest number of elements to create compositions extraordinarily synthetic in that superimposes a series of abstract signs, very gestural, large capacity metaphorical and suggestive that float on the surface of each canvas. The importance attached to the vacuum, the use of colour ranges intense that create a multitude of contrasts and harmonies that appear suspended in atmospheres crystal clear and silent are features present in all his work. Another facet of his most recent work is the use of a computer as a painter's palette. By means of design programs composed images in which the chromatic range, the shapes and the transparencies that were already countless in their previous works are multiplied now by a thousand taking advantage of the infinite possibilities of the computer. Finally there to greet the addition to his artistic production of pictorial images in motion that we had a good example in the DVD presented in its exposure of The Market in 2006 or in the scenography of the opera "The Night and the Word", with music by José Manuel López López and libretto by Gonzalo Suarez presented at the Venice biennale in 2004.

Currently José Manuel Broto, she lives and works in Mallorca. Since its beginnings has made more than a hundred and sixty solo exhibitions and nearly four hundred collective. His paintings are in museums and major collections and has received numerous awards and distinctions, among which stands out in 1988, the Grand Prix du Salon de Montrouge, 1995 National Prize for Fine Arts, 1996 corresponding Academic of the Royal Academy of fine and Fine Arts of San Luis, 1997 ARCO Award of the Association of Critics, 2003 Gold Medal of the City of Zaragoza, 2003 Award Aragon Goya Etching.