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SOROLLA

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida ( Valencia, February 27 of 1863 - Cercedilla , August 10 of 1923 at 60 years old) was a painter and graphic artist English impressionist. It was one of the most prolific English painter, with more than 2,200 cataloged works.

When he was just 2 years old, his parents died of an epidemic. To be orphaned, her sister Eugenia and he, his aunt Elizabeth, sister of his mother, and her husband, a professional locksmith, welcomed them. Over the years tried to teach him, in vain, the trade of locksmith, noting early on that his true vocation was painting.

In 1874 began studying at the Ecole Normale Superior where he was advised to also register for classes night drawing Artisans School in Valencia. In the latter received in 1879, a box of paints and a diploma as a reward "for their continued application in the drawing figure." That same year, the couple who worked in the workshop of his uncle, he joined the College of Fine Arts of San Carlos, where he studied with painters such as Manuel Matoses, Benlliure or Guadalajara.

After completing his training, he began to submit their work to provincial competitions and exhibitions of fine arts, such as Madrid in May 1881, where he presented three marine Valencia that went unnoticed because it does not fit with the official painting of historic and dramatic theme. The following year he studied the work of Velázquez and others in the Museo del Prado , Realistic stage, which was his teacher Gonzalo Salva . Finally, in 1883, won a medal at the Exposition Regional of Valencia and in 1884, to glory to get the Medal Second Class in the National Exhibition through his work Defense Artillery Park Monteleón , dark melodramatic made for the exhibition, as he told a colleague: "Here, to make themselves know and win medals, you have to make dead. "

achieved major success in Valencia with his work The pallet crit on War of Independence . In this way, was pensioned by the Provincial to travel to Valencia Rome where, while working, he met the art clásico y renacentista , así como los grandes museos, contactando, además, con otros artistas.

Con su amigo el pintor Pedro Gil se desplazó a París durante el primer semestre de 1885 , viviendo de cerca la pintura Impressionist that produced it, back in Rome, variations in theme and style, coming to paint the picture religious The burial of Christ , with which it had the desired effect, where it enters the Naturalism and making contact with the European avant-garde, highlighting works of painters John Singer Sargent , Giovanni Boldini and Anders Leonard Zorn .

In 1888 married Clotilde Garcia Valencia, but would live another year in Italy, this time in the town of Assisi. In 1889 settled in Madrid and in just five years, Sorolla achieved a certain fame and prestige as a painter. In 1894 traveled back to Paris, where he developed the luminism , which would be characteristic of his work from now. He began to paint outdoors, mastered and combining it with light and landscape scenes of everyday life Mediterranean. In works such as The fishing around , Valencia beach or Sad Inheritance , described the feeling that produced the vision of Mediterranean , communicating the splendor of a morning on the beach with a colorful, vibrant and vigorous loose style. With sad legacy received in 1900, the Grand Prix in the international competition of Paris . Also continued with his painting social reporting had reported many successes in recent years with works such as And yet they say that fish is expensive ( 1895).

At that time, Valencia was named favorite son and meritorious, and was given its name to a street. After many trips Europe, mainly England and France , held an exhibition in Paris more than five hundred works, which gave international recognition unusual, knowing his paintings throughout Europe and America. He exhibited his work in New York in 1909 and reaped an unprecedented success with works such as afternoon sun or Swimmers, among many others. So did, in 1911 in Art Museum of San Luis and Art Institute of Chicago .

In November of that year, signed an order for Hispanic Society of America take place on the fourteen murals that decorate the halls of the institution: known as Vision of Spain . With this work done between 1913 and 1919 , three and a half meters high and two hundred feet long, raised an indelible monument to Spain , since it represented scenes features various provinces, both English as Portuguese. It took nearly all 1912 to travel around the country, making sketches and customs and landscapes. In this task include the oil paintings in 1916 dedicated to children and women in beaches Valencia, where the predominant freedom of brushwork and light of their land. Some examples are Mother and daughter or Fisher Valencia .

Another important facet of his was the portraitist of prominent figures and were Juan Ramón Jiménez , King Alfonso XIII , Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Ortega y Gasset , etc.

Also, in 1914, was named scholar and when he finished work on the Hispanic Society , a professor of composition and color in School of Fine Arts Madrid . His paintings represented the direct application of luminism the landscape and the figure, thus bringing this trend to society of the time. His chief disciple, a follower of luminism was Teodoro Andreu .

In 1920, while painting the portrait of Mrs. Perez de Ayala in the garden of his home in Madrid, suffered an attack of hemiplegia that dwindled drastically their physical and mental. He died at his home in Cercedilla the August 10 of 1923.

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