style: Noucentisme

Poblet

Portrait of a lady

Vila Arrufat trained mainly with his father, Joan Vila i Cinca, at the Llotja School in Barcelona, and he completed his studies at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Following his training, he travelled in Paris on a scholarship from Sabadell City Council, and he later went to Italy. He was […]

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 […]

Resting

Noucentist sculpture, although it belongs to a younger generation than the classic movement. New and personal structures of the composition, with new themes that had been treated little in contemporary sculpture. Together with the sculptors Josep Viladomat, Apel·les Fenosa and Josep Granyer, he founded the Evolucionistes group in 1917, a group of artists within the […]

Recumbent Nude

Beyond the recreation of the female nude, Rebull relies on the classical world, Greek classicism and the timeless and historical concept of volume. It was recreated in three types of female nude that it made in different versions, materials and sizes. The seated nude, the standing nude – closer to classic Greco-Roman models – and […]