The influence of the environment on the work of an artist has been and will continue to be an intrinsic characteristic of many of his works, especially when it comes to contemporary painting.

This is the reason for the presence of works related to bullfighting in the pictorial universe of Gloria Ferrer, a painter whose life has been spent mainly in Pamplona, ??a city universally known for its San Fermin festivals, and for the Bull Fair, which is It celebrates each year in those dates (from July 6 to 14) and has as a spectacular and distinctive emblem the encierro, a race where men and women accompany the bulls from the corral where they spend the night to the bullring, and every year It is broadcast live and followed by millions of people around the world.

Unlike other painters, the bullfighting work of Gloria Ferrer has two characteristic elements: 1) The Point of View. The painter shows the scene from the eyes of the bull, and 2) Fear. The bullfighter that Gloria Ferrer paints is not a triumphant or arrogant bullfighter, he is a bullfighter who is afraid. Fear of the bull, fear of failure, bleeps or silence. Without renouncing the beauty of the brightness, lights and colors of the Fiesta, the painter does not address the triumph of man over the animal, but shows us the more fragile side of bullfighting.

In this work we can see all these qualities together in a scene that represents a bad job in the bullring of Pamplona (The third largest in the world). The figures despair in the tables of the ring, inviting us to think that something is wrong: the bull is too brave and far from surrendering, it presents all its nobility and courage to the bullfighters' despair.