style: Modern painting

Three figures and white houses

Ignasi Gil visited Ibiza for the first time in the 30s, and he was fascinated by the sight of all the white and the peasant women’s dresses. He painted genre landscapes all over the island and portraits of peasants in the impressionist style, which sought spontaneity in the brushstrokes, movement and luminosity. In modern art, […]

Fish

Landscape with rocks

Paisatge amb tanca [Landscape with fence]

Nonell formed at the Llotja de Barcelona. Between the years 1894 and 1896 the landscape was the genre of the first years in Nonell’s work. He went to Sant Martí de Provençals, with his box and palette of colors to paint small landscapes, being part of the Sant Martí group, with Ricard Canals, Ramon Pitxot, […]

Around Montornès del Vallès

The landscape depicts a small forest, a path, a row of trees, some farmland and a mountain ridge. The composition is divided into two parts, the lower half with the road and vegetation and the upper half with the cloudy sky. In his pictorial language, the painter of this period moves away from the most […]

The monks’ garden at Montserrat Abbey

Joaquím Mir had a long association with the monastery of Montserrat and its monks, from his youth until his death. In 1931, he moved there with his wife and son. In early January 1934, he presented his works on Andorra that he painted in the autumn of 1933 at the monastery’s library before exhibiting them […]

Clearing on the Montserrat mountain

The vibrant and modern scenes of the nightlife, bohemia and leisure of the Parisian “fin de siècle”, dominated by female figures, were left behind when he settled in Mallorca in 1914, where he would develop the landscape genre. During the Civil War, he took refuge at the abbey of Montserrat, creating paintings of the mountainous […]

Cadaquès

Josep Ma Mallol had difficulties painting outdoors due to a congenital pathology in his limbs, preventing him from cultivating landscape themes more often. It mainly represents study subjects such as still life and portrait. In this work, the painter recreates for us an exceptional Cadaqués beach with a poetic and plastic beauty outside the avant-garde, […]

Le peintre et son modèle

Sant Feliu de Guixols, resting on the walk

A post-impressionist painter, with agile brushstrokes and vibrant colours typical of open air painting. A personal friend of Joaquim Mir, he spent time in Vilanova i la Geltrú and also Montserrat, where he met Emili Grau Sala, with whom he would travel to Paris for the first time. Considered a painter of the Paris school, […]