Alvar Suñol Muñoz-Ramos, (Alvar) was born on January 20, 1935 in Montgat, a nearby fishing village to Barcelona. Since his youth he showed great artistic talent. Alvar attended to the school Art of Sant Jordi in Barcelona for 16 years.

At 18 he won the Alhambra in Granada scholarship, which allowed him to travel and paint throughout Spain. This was the birth of Alvar style and placement of the foundations of his way of painting, technical base with you for the next few years. Upon returning home he participated in the Young Artist Award sponsored by the City of Barcelona, winning and having the satisfaction that his work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona for its permanent collection.

In 1957, to 22, Alvar made his first solo exhibition in Barcelona Layetana Galleries. The exhibition was a great success and Alvar received many invitations to exhibit in other Spanish cities. It was presented to the annual painting contest which organized the French Institute of Barcelona, winning and with it, a study trip to Paris.

In 1962, the Monede Gallery in New York showed Alvar's work in his first exhibition in the United States. In the early 2000s, Alvar began creating public mixed media murals. In 2001, he designed a mural of the four seasons for Tiana, a suburb of Barcelona, and in 2003, he designed an 18-foot sculpture in the Plaza de Mallorquines in Montgat, Spain. In 2008, he also created a sculpture of Catalan cellist Pablo Casals, in the Boulogne Billancourt of Paris.

Alvar works in watercolor, oil, ceramics, engravings, sculpture, lithography, muralsand monuments. For Alvar the flute, the mandolin, the fruit, the flowers, the dove, the lace, the tiled floor, the table, the checkered tablecloth, and the window are not only references to the world he wishes to recreate but also forms intriguing in themselves. He likes the symmetry and the color of the sliced watermelon, with its regularly spaced seeds, the comparable symmetry of the sliced apple and the cut flowers, the geometric pattern of checks, the graceful shape of musical instruments, and the elegance of the dove. The windows provide a visual echo of the frame of the entire image, and Alvar frequently plays with both.

His works have been on display in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Various works have been produced about Alvar’s career.