style: Olot School

By the river

Landscape with cows and figures

Vayreda learnt from his master Ramon Martí i Alsina to depict open-air landscapes in a realistic setting. This painting is a pastoral scene featuring peasants and animals. It is a very representative work of the classical style in its years of pictorial plenitude (1877 to 1882). The painter composes in a general panorama to give […]

Landscape with sheep

Barcelona painter of English descent decided to go to Olot, to personally treat the painter he admired, Joaquim Vayreda. To go from Barcelona to Olot, a town that at the time was still walled, was a fifteen-hour journey. Influenced by the French realist painters of the Barbizon school, he also traveled to Paris on the […]

Olot landscape

Olot

Garbejany [carrying hay bullets]

Portrait of a lady

Vila Arrufat trained mainly with his father, Joan Vila i Cinca, at the Llotja School in Barcelona, and he completed his studies at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Following his training, he travelled in Paris on a scholarship from Sabadell City Council, and he later went to Italy. He was […]

Olot landscape

Fluvià river, Olot

Olot

He taught for many years at the Artistic Centre and School of Fine Arts of Olot, and he formed a group of enthusiastic landscape artists, the beginnings of what at that time was the revolutionary Olot School of landscape painting. Although it was created by Vayreda, Berga was the one to consolidate and popularise the […]