Century: 19th

The Aplec

Montserrat

River and trees

Following a period close to contemporary avant-garde artists, Josep Ventosa decided to return to classical and academist landscape painting: the landscape associated with the Catalan countryside as a naturalist aesthetic space. Using a colour pallet of mainly green and soft blues, seeking harmony, creating subtle atmospheres representing an ideal environment in the landscape. When, later, […]

Monasterio de Piedra

Landscape

Military manoeuvres

A painter of military scenes, chronicler of his time and disseminator of military culture due to his fascination for the army and military materials, particularly horses and cavalry detachments. This depiction of cavalry manoeuvres offers a symmetrical precision in its composition and sense of rhythm and movement to suggest the mass of riders, with the […]

The portrait of Eduardo Rosales

The portrait of José Faraudo

Legend on the back: José Faraudo, age 21, Reus

Dr. Alberich Casas visiting a asian cholera patient

Fortuny in 1854, during the cholera epidemic, he went to Reus to be near his father and sisters. In this composition set inside a stable, the Doctor wears a coat, hat and cane, with sideburns and goggles, two characters carry a stretcher with a patient. Genuinely realistic representation, the painter follows the romantic guidelines learned […]

Beach houses

This landscape artist, a follower of the luminist school, developed his painting style giving absolute prominence to light, softer and more diffuse in nature. He often introduced perspectives with very pronounced and deep diagonal lines that depicted simple and realistic spaces, lending great importance to the material qualities of the elements, land, roads and whitewashed […]