style: Nauturalism

Catalan landscape

Smoker

Traginers [Muleteers]

As a painter, he worked assiduously on landscapes. He also devoted himself to industrial artistic drawing, designing mosaics, stained glass and carpets, as well as mural painting in palaces and churches.

The shepherds

Viaticum

The Aplec

Paisatge d’Olot

On behalf of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he traveled to Italy with the sculptor Joan Rebull, to learn about the methods of artistic teaching that they later put into practice, with the town council of Tarragona and the Generalitat, In the city of Tarragona he developed a project to renew and make the artistic education […]

El trabajo [Work]

He was a disciple of Ramon Martí Alsina, developing the rural landscape genre typical of the school of costumbrismo and realism. Fundamentally considered a landscape artist, he created both portraits and historical and genre paintings. A painter of landscapes and naturalistic works with historical and allegorical themes, evocative for their idealism, with epic nuances, like […]

Gypsy woman sitting

Nonell painted figures of gypsies until 1907. With a sober, introspective and respectful look, he portrayed an old woman resting; the model was known as Grandma, of gypsy ethnicity. Reluctant to modernist aesthetics, his models were few and far between: Consol, the gypsy who provided him with his “grandmother”, represented in this work, his cousin […]