Joaquín Sorolla, the luminous of Spanish painting

February 27, 2020 at 09:23 p.m.

On February 27, 1863 the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla. With more than 2 works He placed himself as an impressionist, post-impressionist and lightingist.

He studied drawing at the School of Artisans of Valencia and later observed the work of Velázquez and other authors at the Museo del Prado.

After visiting the Prado Museum, Sorolla painted the unpublished canvas in 1883 Christ study, discovered in 2012, where the influence of the crucified Christ of Velázquez is observed.

In this way he began his 'realistic stage', obtaining a medal in the Regional Exhibition of Valencia, and one more in the National Exhibition thanks to his work Defense of the artillery park of Monteleón.

He also traveled to Rome where he met classical and Renaissance art, while in Paris he approached the impressive paint.

 

Sorolla, the luminous

Upon his return to Madrid he achieved great popularity as a painter, highlighting his pictorial style called luminism.

Thus, he began to paint outdoors, masterfully mastering the light and combining it with everyday and landscape scenes of Mediterranean life.

His work Sad inheritance it was worth it in 1900, the Grand Prix at the international competition in Paris.

He continued with his social denunciation painting that gave him so many successes with works such as They still say that fish is expensive (1894)

Towards the summer of 1905 he traveled to Javea, where he made a series of paintings of naked children, one of his most famous series and which earned him the subsequent commission of the Hispanic Society of America.

One of the most prominent paintings in the series is The bathroom, from 1905 and belonging to the collection of New York Metropolitan Museum.

During this time, he also worked as a portraitist while working as a professor of composition and color at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.

In 1920, while he was painting the portrait of Ramón Pérez de Ayala's wife in his home garden, he suffered a hemiplegia that diminished his physical faculties, preventing him from continuing to paint.

He died three years later at his summer residence in Cercedilla, on August 10, 1923, at age 60.

 

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