From the Prado to the Royal Palace, via the Sorolla Museum, from Madrid to Valencia after a detour via San Sebastian, Seville, Majorca… or even Dallas.
Spain celebrates this year the centenary of the death of Joaquín Sorolla through some thirty exhibitions to discover under all prisms the one who has become obligatory to present as "the painter of light".
Because, beyond Impressionism - the representatives of which he allowed himself to call “lazy”!
-, the artist managed to make light the main object of his works and, even, to dominate its expression to the point of providing the illusion that it emanates directly from his paintings.
Or as the writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez wrote during his lifetime:
“What he does is not to paint, it is to steal from nature its light and its colors.”
A general public introduction to this unequaled mastery of natural clarity is offered at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
The National Heritage, the institution that manages the palaces…
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