A restless painter in his observations and reflections on art, in tune with the painters of the Barbizon school, whom the artist had met on his travels in France. Also attracted by the work of Gustave Courbet, they made him evolve into a modern realism, which he introduced in Catalonia in his pedagogical system, going beyond the traditional formulas that were spread by the academies and the manuals of the time .

He was a disciple of Lluís Rigalt and as a teacher he taught painting in Plain Air and got closer to nature by connecting with a new pictorial genre when it was still unrecognized: landscape painting.With a freer brushstroke and changes in light, the Field of Wheat delimited in the distance by a thin line of trees that defines the horizon, the immensity of the clouded sky with humorous skies that reflect soft transparencies, occupying half of the large canvas. The general atmosphere of the landscape conveys calm. The very dilated view of the landscape space represented is called a panoramic view, widely used for scenes of battles or landscapes from the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Martí Alsina changed the aesthetic trend of Catalan painting in his century, and he is responsible for the triumph of the landscape as a pictorial genre, when it still had no recognition as such.

Oil on canvas

84x166 cm

Ramon Marti Alsina, 1826 - 1896