Century: 20th

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, […]

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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 […]

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Nimfa

A frequent painter of the Symbolist environments of Paris, much of his work focused on symbolism, representing characters from mythology, fairies and nymphs with flowers, musical instruments, in idealized settings in gardens and near lakes or the sea. Symbolism is a current of art at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of […]

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Girls in the light of a lantern

A realistic painter specialised in genre painting, as well as landscapes and portraits on commission. He had a preference for light-dark scenes and theatrical light effects, influenced by his work as an organiser and producer of plays. A pioneer in the art of cinematography, after having seen the great success enjoyed by the cinemas of […]

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