Century: 19th

Landscape

It is a pastoral narrative, as the composition lacks a main element or figure, leaving the landscape as the protagonist, representing an idealised and harmonious rural scene. In his landscapes, chiefly of the beech groves or wetland undergrowth around Olot, rural scenes interpreted in a very agile style imbued with the French “plein air”, he […]

Landscape

An artist of great technical precision, a master of watercolour painting, which was a medium much appreciated in the 19th century. The government of the First Republic sent him to Rome, where he lived for ten years, to study at the Academy of Rome. He had great international impact, as the market, with the art […]

Valencian landscape

El trabajo [Work]

He was a disciple of Ramon Martí Alsina, developing the rural landscape genre typical of the school of costumbrismo and realism. Fundamentally considered a landscape artist, he created both portraits and historical and genre paintings. A painter of landscapes and naturalistic works with historical and allegorical themes, evocative for their idealism, with epic nuances, like […]

The Burial of Christ. Sketch for a painting for the Cathedral of Vic

Josep Maria Sert’s worldwide success resided in his personal and grandiloquent compositions, which were very often completely symbolic, such as the murals of the League of Nations -now the UN- in Geneva, in 1935 and 1936.

Els peixos del cantó [The fish nearby]

Carrer de Premià de Mar [Street in Premià de Mar]

In modern art, urban landscapes are a substantial part of the artistic scene creating a landscape with traditional roots that wants to capture the natural environment. Painters are attracted to smaller towns that retain the charm of the past. In the case of Mediterranean populations, the impact of light on white walls offers immense chromatic […]

Landscape

Lluís Rigalt, professor and director of the School of La Llotja, is considered the first naturalist landscape painter in Catalonia and the forerunner of a school to which such important painters as Martí Alsina, Modest Urgell and Joaquim Vayreda belonged. His paintings are painted in oil, meticulous and elegant, straddling the idealized romantic landscape and […]

Female figure