Technic: Oil on canvas

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 […]

Seascape. L’Estartit

Painted in 1933, during his trip along the Costa Brava, which he made next to Rusiñol and Meifrèn. The color technique learned from the impressionists. The use of color with the intention of reflecting light gives better accuracy of reality and gives soul and immensity to the beach.

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 […]

Manola

The work of Francesc Miralles, with a technique influenced by the work of Marià Fortuny and the “tableautin” trend (small, precious and easily understandable paintings, exotic and anecdotal in nature like the Spanish aesthetic), imposed by the art market and the French dealer Goupil connected with the refined and elegant tastes of the bourgeoisie of […]

The portrait of Eduardo Rosales

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 […]

Pulvis, cineris, nihil [Dust, ashes, nothing]

Santiago Rusiñol went to Tarragona in 1894 to visit and keep company with his friend Josep Yxart who was ill at the time. Critic and writer, Yxart had been part of the group of artists and writers of Barcelona’s Cau Ferrat, through Narcís Oller, and who endorsed Rusiñol in the theater and its first premieres. […]

Les hortènsies de la sabatera [The cobbler’s hydrangeas]

We know Rusiñol’s desire to represent a closed compositional space. In this painting that was presented at a Paris Salon, he paints a corner of a courtyard where he places a girl playing with a doll next to a wall on which there are pots of long-stemmed hydrangeas that cover the entire wall , with […]

Landscape

A painter, jeweller and goldsmith trained in the Noucentisme style by Francesc Galí and working as a jeweller in his town of Valls, he immersed himself in the landscape of the Alt Camp region. In 1924, he travelled to Paris for the first time, where he saw the works of Cézanne and Matisse, artists influential […]

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 […]