Landscape

Vall de Núria

He often painted Montesquiu and the river Freser, at night and day, from one bank or the other. Over a period of more than 30 years, he spent many summers in this area, sometimes in the company of other painters. He also painted mountains, particularly the nooks and valleys of Núria, to which he had […]

Countryside road

Green Valira river banks in Canillo

Rafael Benet worked as a painter, critic and art historian. He began his training in Terrassa with his uncle, the modernist painter Joaquím Vancells, at the art school of Francesc d’Assís Galí, and also at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, where he was president from 1928 to 1930. As an art historian, he carried […]

Sant Llorenç de Munt

Golden landscape. Cerdanya

A disciple of Eliseu Meifrèn and Joaquim Mir, among others, and professor at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. The landscapes chosen are mainly of around Deià (Mallorca), Port de la Selva, Puigcerdà and Cerdanya. A painter from a period in the history of Catalan landscape painting, from the Noucentisme generation returning to […]

Fluvià river, Olot

Andorra

Sanvisens came to Andorra following in the footsteps of Joaquim Mir, of whom he was a follower, as well as the Llotja School, where he was a professor. The landscapes became the main subject of his paintings. In the painting Andorra, despite the diagonal construction and the vanishing point perspective of the landscape, he paints […]

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, […]