style: Realism

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 […]

Procession to Montserrat

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 […]

Flowers

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. 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 […]

Landscape

In 1848 he travelled to Paris, where he visited the Louvre and discovered the work of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet, the greatest international exponent of pictorial realism. In addition to creating, he also undertook important teaching work, following the precepts of French realist painters and the work of the Barbizon school. His innovative teaching […]