Paisatge d’Olot

On behalf of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he traveled to Italy with the sculptor Joan Rebull, to learn about the methods of artistic teaching that they later put into practice, with the town council of Tarragona and the Generalitat, In the city of Tarragona he developed a project to renew and make the artistic education […]

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Landscape. El Ter [Ter river]

Antoni Ros portrayed multiple landscapes around the waters of the Ter River. This work is not dated but could have been made at the beginning of 1900, dates in which the painter portrayed on several occasions similar scenarios of stagnant waters of the River Ter, such as Closes del Ter (1908) or Dusk (1905). In […]

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Martinet bridge

After two centuries, and between the physical geography of the different Catalan counties and the experiences of an artist and his connection with the territory, we find the painter Joaquim Terruella working in Martinet de Cerdanya. It represented a bridge, which takes us into an impressionistic landscape, arid and dry, with the counterpoint of the […]

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Olot

He taught for many years at the Artistic Centre and School of Fine Arts of Olot, and he formed a group of enthusiastic landscape artists, the beginnings of what at that time was the revolutionary Olot School of landscape painting. Although it was created by Vayreda, Berga was the one to consolidate and popularise the […]

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Prats de Santa Coloma, Andorra [Meadows in Santa Coloma]

In 1932, he made the first of his three visits to Andorra. He arrived by car to Santa Coloma, accompanied by his wife, son, driver and assistant. This oil painting is a good representation of his post-impressionist style. There are three almost parallel areas –the field, the mountain and the sky–, bright and contrasting greens, […]

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Clouds

He went to Paris in 1892 and he began to associate with impressionist artists, leading to a change in his pictorial style. His colour pallet became lighter and he began using light blue, ochre and golden tones, starting to accentuate all the colours seen in the sea and rivers. He was continually drawn to the […]

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Green Landscape

A professional decorative painter, by which he earned his living, his apprenticeship was almost self-taught. He went to Madrid in 1884 to study the Spanish painters of the Golden Age and, thanks to a recommendation from Elisenda Cerdà, daughter of the architect Ildefons Cerdà, he became a student of Carlos de Haes, the Belgian artist, […]

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