Sorolla's Impressionist style dazzles with luminous brushwork, vibrant color, and a masterful play of light, evoking sun-soaked coastal beauty.
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That is what happens when you visit too many times a museum with your favourite artist : Sorolla. At least that is what happens to me.
Sorolla often painted his family at leisure. This subject area allowed the artist considerable expressive freedom, since in many cases these paintings were...
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Joaquin Sorolla (Soroya) Cousant la voile/ Sewing the Sail. 1896 Oil on canvas 222 × 300 cm Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was born in Valencia. He and his younger sister were orphaned 2 years later when both their parents died from a cholera outbreak. From an early age it was clear that Sorolla had a passion for art. Instead of academic study, the young Sorolla would spend his school days making drawings in his copybooks and by the age of 15 he was winning major prizes for his paintings at the Academy of Valencia. By his mid 20s Sorolla had firmly established himself on the national stage and by 30 he had displayed paintings in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin, and Chicago. By the turn of the century Sorolla was recognised as one of the western world’s greatest living artists, receiving gold medals in several major international exhibitions. Over the first decade of the 20th century Sorolla’s output was incredible, both in quality and quantity. As well as painting many striking portraits, his new found wealth enabled him to devote himself more fully to painting where and what he wanted. Throughout this decade Sorolla was completing hundreds of paintings each year, often canvases of 2 metres or more painted direct on the beach. In 1909, the Hispanic Society of America hosted an exhibition of Sorolla’s works in New York City. Of the 356 paintings on show a total of 195 were sold. In 1911 Sorolla started work on a major commission to produce a series of vast panels celebrating the life and customs of the different regions of Spain for the Hispanic Society’s new headquarters in New York. This enormous and exhausting endeavour was to dominate the next 8 years of Sorolla's life, although he still managed to find time to paint some of his most stunning beach scenes. Sorolla suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1920 and died three years later. More on Joaquín Sorolla Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, and The Canals of Venice, And visit my Boards on Pinterest Images are copyright of their respective owners, assignees or others. Some Images may be subject to copyright I don't own any of these images - credit is always given when due unless it is unknown to me. if I post your images without your permission, please tell me. I do not sell art, art prints, framed posters or reproductions. Ads are shown only to compensate the hosting expenses. If you enjoyed this post, please share with friends and family. Thank you for visiting my blog and also for liking its posts and pages.
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863-Cercedilla, 1923) was a spanish painter and illustrator, active mainly in his native Valencia and in Madrid. He was a prolific and popular artist, working on a wide variety of subjects—genre, portraits, landscapes, historical scenes—and producing many book illustrations. His pleasant and undemanding style was marked by brilliant high-keyed colour and vigorous brushwork, representing a kind of conservative version of Impressionism.
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Année faste au Musée des Impressionnismes à Giverny, où le lumineux Joaquin Sorolla succède à la magnifique exposition Gustave Caillebotte. "En 1906, le peintre espagnol Joaquin Sorolla expose pour la première fois à Paris, à la galerie Georges Petit,...
El Museo Sorolla de Madrid acoge la exposición 'Sorolla. Un jardín para pintar' con cuadros, fotografías, dibujos y azulejos que el valenciano ideó y retrató
El Cuadro "La bata rosa" de Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida fue pintado en 1916, la belleza de la escena costumbrista no es opacada por la complejidad de la obra. El maestro Sorolla ejecutó de manera genial las figuras, viento y fuentes lumínicas. El pintor logró uno de los cuadros con más calidez y alegría de su carrera.
http://maiasintothemoonlight.blogspot.com.es/2009/06/sorolla-1863-1923-boys-on-beach-joaquin.html Children on the Beach is a painting made by Joaquín Sorolla. Sorolla was born in Valencia on the 27th February 1863. Sorolla is a Spanish painter who 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 peoples and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. He started his artistic learning in 1877 with the sculptor Cayetano Capuz in the “Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes” in San Carlos. He was interested in the open-air painting since he was young. He tried to capture the Mediterranean brightness, both in the Valencian garden and on the beach, as the French impressionists did. He completed his education in Paris and Rome, and when he came back to Spain, in 1890, he settled down in Madrid, where he started a successful career. Among his favorite themes, Sorolla stands out for his dedication to the landscapes of the Eastern coast of Spain, always with human presence and a remarkable presence of the light. Sorolla died in Cercedilla (Madrid) in 1923. Children on the Beach was made in 1910. Sorolla signed a contract to paint a series of paintings about life in Spain for the Hispanic Society of America and he made fourteen murals which would decorate the institution rooms. They are known as Visions of Spain. With this painting, made between 1913 and 1919, whose dimensions are 3m x 70m, he raised an indelible monument of Spain, although scenes of diverse Spanish and Portuguese provinces were represented. He spent almost the whole 1912 travelling around the country, doing sketches and works of landscapes and customs. The oil paintings painted in 1916 dedicated to children and women in the Valencian beaches stand out in this series. The free brush stroke and the light of his native land predominate in them. Some examples are: Mother and daughter (Madre e hija) http://www.reprodart.com/a/joaquin-sorolla/madre-e-hijo-en-la-playa.html Valencian Fisherwoman (Pescadora valenciana) http://www.conhiloyaguja.com/Detalle-Grafico.aspx?obj=781&pag=121&pg=3 The dimensions of the painting Children on the Beach are 118 x 185 cm and the technique Sorolla used is a loose brush-stroke and the use of light. It is an oil painting on canvas. Sorolla donated it to the extinct National Museum of Modern Art on the 28th February 1919.This painting belongs to a series on works of the same topic painted by Sorolla on the Valencian coast over a period of twenty years. This painting is in El Prado Museum now. It was exposed on the 1911 exhibition in the USA, with other paintings, such as Idyll on the sea, very similar. These works contributed to Sorolla’s success in the West side of the Atlantic. Sorolla kept this painting until he donated it to the National Museum of Modern Art in 1919. The happy images of the children enjoying on the Mediterranean beach and the heat of the Sun were loved everywhere. In addition, they allowed Sorolla´s extraordinary talent to be known among the American painters of this period. With loose brush-strokes full of bright colours, freedom and energy and an incomparable spontaneity, Sorolla seems to move the Sun effects shaking against the wet skin of the children. Representing the life on the sunny beaches that he loved, Sorolla captured the fleeting impressions caused by the Sun. Nevertheless, he admitted with sadness that he couldn’t paint the qualities of the Sun exactly as they are, only in an approximate form. Idyll on the sea (Idilio en el mar) http://www.todocuadros.com/sorolla/ Analysis The painting represents a crystalline beach with three boys there. The children are completely naked because they swam this way in the past. They are lying face down on the mud while the water touches their skin. They are in different positions: One of them, blond and with pale skin, looks younger than the other ones and he is leaning on his elbow looking to the other boys, dark-haired and dark-skinned, whose bodies are lying in another position. The boy who is in the middle, is looking to the first one with a big smile while the other one is indifferent to the scene. The blond boy is less sunken on the sand than the other two, and his body is outlined with more detail. His soles, the fingers of his feet, the muscles of his legs, his gluteus and back have more definition than the other children, who are half-buried on the wet sand. Their bodies are dimmer. Children on the Beach is a good proof of the Sorolla’s skill to capture, with quick brush-strokes, the subtle colors of the swell. Also, with his amazing skill, he fixed the shadows under the children, just like the naked bodies reflected on the water and, with blue touches, the sparkles of the sky on the sand around. White brush-strokes –although for Sorolla total white didn’t exist, neither on the nature nor in the painting- capture the effect of sunlight rays with the wet skin. Sorolla always looked for transmitting the effects of sunlight in his paintings and he managed to do it with the amazing ease we can admire in Children on the Beach. He was considered to be impressionist or post-impressionist. However, he refused to be called this way. Although he painted the moment, and he seemed to be close to the impressionism in his notes, he kept a realism that made up a very personal style. Sorolla has a lot of paintings related with the beach. Here you have some of them: Children on the Seashore. The Horse’s Bath. (I really love this painting) The Two Sisters. Girl Going into the Sea. The Sloop. Sewing the Sail. Walk on the Beach. The Fisherman Girls on the Sea All these paintings are from the same website: http://www.todocuadros.com/sorolla/ As you can see, Sorolla reflected the beaches of his native land in his paintings. In many of them children appear, representing the happiness of the summer with bright colours. The sea had a big importance for Sorolla. In his paintings fishers, swimmers and boats appear. The sea reflects penetrate in them with a great luminosity. The sunrays produced for him an iridescence that he expected and managed to fix on the canvas, as Monet in the consecutive versions of the Rouen Cathedral. http://missgati.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/luz-y-creacion.html http://ilmanoscrittodelcavaliere.blogspot.com.es/2013_02_01_archive.html Sorolla said: "It would be impossible for me to paint in the open-air slowly. There is nothing unmoving around us. But even if everything was petrified and fixed, the movement of the Sun, what it constantly does, would be enough to give a different aspect to things". (“ Me sería imposible pintar despacio al aire libre. No hay nada inmóvil en lo que nos rodea. Pero aunque todo estuviera petrificado y fijo, bastaría que se moviera el sol, lo que hace de continuo, para dar diverso aspecto a las cosas”). Similar Sorolla’s paintings to the painting I’ve chosen: Children on the Sea. (Valencia) On the Sand. The Wounded Foot. On the Beach. http://www.foroxerbar.com/viewtopic.php?t=3993 The images are from the same website: http://www.gentearte.com/obras/Joaquin-Sorolla-Bastida/Ninos%20en%20la%20Playa%20Valencia.jpg/ CURIOSITIES On the 8th November 2012, eleven paintings of private collections and other three coming from El Prado Museum, Lladró Museum and IVAM respectively, were incorporated to the second extension of Joaquín Sorolla´s Room of the San Pío V Museum of Valencia. Seven of them were unknown, they had never been exposed nor photographed. Among the incorporated paintings is one of the twenty self-portraits he painted during his life, in 1915 dedicated to his son- in- law, Francisco Pons Arnau. http://www.foroxerbar.com/viewtopic.php?t=3993 The unprecedented portrait of María Sorolla, his daughter, titled María with red top (María con blusa roja) http://www.levante-emv.com/servicios/lupa/lupa.jsp?pIdFoto=4419324&pRef=2012110800_39_950299__Cultura-Inedito-Sorolla Cabañal courtyard (Patio del Cabañal). http://www.informavalencia.com/noticias/ampliar/1432/el-san-pio-v-contara-con-un-nuevo-sorolla The child Jaime García Banús (El niño Jaime García Banús). (Children portraits that reflect the freshness and affection that Sorolla applied to these paintings). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla_y_Bastida_-_El_ni%C3%B1o_Jaime_Garc%C3%ADa_Ban%C3%BAs.jpg Sorolla adopted the models of Velázquez as his own, playing with the references of some famous paintings and using the sources of the Sevillian painter in a direct form. The provocative Nude Woman (Desnudo de mujer)- in which Sorolla honored in secret privacy the naked body of his wife-, recalls Velázquez’s Venus in her Mirror, while for the familiar portraits he was inspired directly in The Meninas. http://www.museodelprado.es/exposiciones/info/en-el-museo/joaquin-sorolla-1863-1923/la-exposicion/secciones/iv/ Sorolla also painted a painting related with our region. Guys of La Mancha (Tipos de la Mancha). Maybe the background is our town !!! http://www.foroxerbar.com/viewtopic.php?t=3993 PERSONAL OPINION I’ve chosen Children on the Beach because I loved it the first time I saw it. I think it is a very beautiful painting that reflects the beach and the summer. It is simple in the sense that there aren’t a lot of people in it, because I don’t like that type of paintings. This painting makes me feel the innocence of the children who enjoy on the beach without worries and it transmits me calm too. Sources: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%B1os_en_la_playa http://www.museodelprado.es/enciclopedia/enciclopedia-on-line/voz/ninos-en-la-playa-sorolla/ http://www.xn--espaaescultura-tnb.es/es/artistas_creadores/joaquin_sorolla.html http://www.epdlp.com/pintor.php?id=376 http://html.rincondelvago.com/joaquin-sorolla.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla http://www.wordreference.com/ http://www.elmundo.es/accesible/elmundo/2012/11/08/valencia/1352407675.html http://www.museodelprado.es/exposiciones/info/en-el-museo/joaquin-sorolla-1863-1923/la-exposicion/secciones/iv/ http://www.levante-emv.com/cultura/2012/11/08/inedito-sorolla-san-pio-v/950299.html Raquel Ortiz Escribano 4ºA
El pintor Joaquín Sorolla se sirvió de la cámara para capturar todo aquello que escapaba a la fugacidad de la mirada. La fotografía ocupó un lugar privilegiado en su obra y también en su vida se codeó con los maestros de la época y atesoró una nutrida colección de instantáneas. Ahora una exposición nos permite asomarnos al excepcional álbum que recoge los momentos clave del universo del artista valenciano
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Joaquín Sorolla. Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1911
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Quite a bit of material today, all of it from live drawing sessions in the Sony days. We were lucky to have this wonderful opportunity to learn and have fun with a great group of friends!
The Yellow Rosebush of the Sorolla House Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - circa 1920
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 – 1923) was a brilliant Spanish painter who was known for his dexterous brushwork and vibrant portrayal of light in his landscapes and portraits. He painted with amazing haste yet beautiful harmony. He quoted: “I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must ... Read more
This March, the National Gallery, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Ireland and Madrid’s Museo Sorolla, opens its doors to the first UK retrospective of the work of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida since his first one-man show in Britain at Mayfair’s Grafton Galleries in 1908.
