The master of light - the Spanish Impressionist painter Joaquin Sorolla, painted the real summer by the sea
Recently, the summer is hot, many painters have painted summer, and the list of painters who really love to depict summer in my heart must not be missed is the Spanish Impressionist painter Joaquín Joaquín Sorolla.
Joaquín Sorolla, although only 60 years old, was prolific throughout his life, leaving behind more than two thousand works. His works of his mature period are considered to be masterpieces of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Light and Shadowism. He wrote about the summer seaside children's frolicking vivid and natural, full of beauty.
Born into poverty, Solora's parents died during the cholera outbreak when she was 2 years old and was orphaned and adopted by her aunt. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the San Carlos Academy in Valencia because of his artistic talent. In 1884, before the age of 21, he exhibited his first large-scale historical painting, which was acquired by the Spanish government. After studying in Rome and Paris, he returned to Valencia, Spain.
He used a large number of impastoed pigments (heavily impastoed pigments) to present everyday themes in an Impressionist way. In 1906, Aurora first exhibited at Galerie Georges Petit at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, one of the main galleries focused on Impressionism, which was highly acclaimed. In 1909, he made his successful U.S. debut in a solo exhibition organized by the Spanish Society in New York City. The acclaim he received earned him a commission to paint president William Howard Taft in 1909.
The Pink Robe. After the Bath (1916)
After returning to Spain, he bought a beach house in Valencia on the Mediterranean coast. For the rest of his career, he draws inspiration from the vast seaside, using strong chiaroscuro, brilliant colors and large brushstrokes to paint the scorching sun of the Mediterranean sea and the infinite variations of the seaside landscape.
Strolling along the Seashore
The Horse’s Bath (1909)
In addition to his own favorite landscape paintings, he also undertook the commission of portraiture, and did not reject the social subject matter of painting, although it was less.
His work is often exhibited with the works of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn Anders Zorn. My personal aesthetic feeling is that some of his portraits have wonderful similarities with Sargent's painting style.
Joaquin Sorolla Garcia and His Dog
In 1912, Aurora received an important commission from the Spanish Association in the United States to paint a series of canvas paintings to decorate the library, known as The Spanish Vision The Provinces of Spain, which consisted of 14 huge canvases, which took years. Depicting the costumes and customs of the major Spanish provinces, he travels outdoors to paint on the Iberian Peninsula with strong visual effects and rich details, showing the landscape and culture of Spain with a brush.
Lagarteran Bride (1912)
Unfortunately, Aurora did not see his epic frescoes completed in New York, as in June 1920 he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by a stroke while painting in the garden of his home in Madrid, and died three years after being tormented by illness. When he died, he was transported back to Valencia, Spain for burial.
His painting style combines the impressionist passion for showing changes in light, blending personal styles, such as the use of long brushstrokes and blacks, the laying of earth colors, and so on.
On the coast of Valencia
The Little Sailing Boat (1909)
I like his paintings of seaside landscapes, many of his works, like the French Impressionists, are also sketched outdoors, and there are even sand grains on the seashore in the paintings, and the brushstroke treatment of the large surfaces in the paintings is integrated with a strong sense of light, which is its own style.
Maria on the Beach, Zarauz