Sorolla in Giverny
Sorolla in Giverny
On this trip, we will visit the Sorolla exhibition in Giverny and will attend the biennal Paris antiquarian, accompanied, among others, themed tours of pottery and porcelain of the time
Sorolla in Giverny & Biennal Paris Antiquarian
September 7-11, 2016
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 27 February 1863) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land
When account two years old , his parents die . His sister Eugenia and he was welcomed by his aunt Elizabeth and her husband , who tried to teach the craft of the locksmith . He studied Velázquez and other painters in the Prado Museum in Madrid.Partió to Paris in 1885 , where he met Impressionist painting , and then to Rome where he completed his education. In 1888 he married Clotilde García in Valencia , with whom he will live another year in Italy, settling in Assisi. In 1889 returned to Spain and settled in Madrid and in just five years , a career studded with successes , awards and important commissions: First National Medal of Arts in 1892 and 1895 , and the Grand Prix of the Exhibition of Parísde 1900 , among many other awards.
From this period are works of social criticism and even as they say that fish is expensive ( 1894 , Museo del Prado). Among his favorite subjects include its dedication to the Levantine landscape, coastal environment , always with a human presence and plasma with an absolute role of the light that makes the colors vibrate and mark the movement of the figures and Children on the Beach (1910 , Museo del Prado) , walk along the sea ( 1909) and the horse's bath (1909 , Museo Sorolla , Madrid). Its popularity spread throughout Europe , holding exhibitions in Paris (1906 ) , Berlin and Cologne (1907 ) and London (1908 ) , then displaying your pictures in several US cities . In New York he made the decoration of the main hall of the Hispanic Society of America, chaired by Archer Milton Huntington, formed by fourteen large panels dedicated to representing the people and customs of the various regions of Spain . In 1914 he was elected academician of Fine Arts of San Fernando . In 1920 , Joaquin Sorolla suffered a serious illness that eventually led to his death in Cercedilla , Madrid, on 10 August 1923 .