Joaquín Sorolla Beach E-Book

Cristina Berna

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

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Beschreibung

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 --died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting. Joaquín Sorolla painted the most wonderful beach scenes. Every year he visited his native Valencia with its wonderful beaches and dazzling sunlight. He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking beach scenes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques as the photograph. His beach paintings became enormously popular and are in many great museums. In the course of preparing for his grand masterpiece "The Vision of Spain", which hangs in the Hispanic Society of America, Sorolla also visited many places of Spain. Here he painted types of people and local dress which made up his vision of Spain, diverse and colorful yet united. Enjoy this splendid beach trip!

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About the authors

Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She writes to entertain a diverse audience.

Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.

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Cover picture:

Front: "Niños en la playa, Valencia", 1910

Inside: “El baño del caballo”, 1909

Content

Introduction

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Triste inherencia

Verano

La herida del pie

- The Wounded Foot

El Niño de la barquíta

Chicos en la playa

Nadadores, Jávea

The White Boat

Niño en las rocas, Jávea –

Boy on the Rocks, Javea

The Curious Child

The Bath, Jávea

Dibujo en la arena

Niños en el mars, Playa de Valencia

Children at the Beach

Balandrito

La nietecita

The Little Granddaughter

Children bathing at Valencia, Setting Sun

Niños buscando mariscos

Children at the Beach

El Pescador -

The Fisherman

El baño del caballo -

The Horse’s Bath

Jugando en el aqua

or

Baño en la playa

Niña entrada en el baño -

The Bathing Hour

Corrienda en la playa

Children in the sea

Dos Hermanas, Valencia

- Two Sisters, Valencia

Buscando Mariscos, Playa de Valencia

Después de puetyo el sol, Playa de Valencia

Niña en la playa, Valencia

Young girl in a silvery sea

Noon on the Beach at Valencia

Menina

Las tres hermanas en la playa

El baño, Valencia

- Going for a Bath, Valencia

Cabeça de pescadora or Rosa Joaquín

Antonio Garcia at the Beach

Time for a Bathe

Untitled Painting

Girl at the Beach

Clotilde en la playa

- Clotilde at the Beach

En la playa

Paseo del faro - Lighthouse Walk at Biarritz

Paseo a las orillas del mar - Walk on the Beach

Panoramio, untitled or

Playa de Caleta, Malaga

Maria on the Beach at Zarauz

Rocks and the Lighthouse, Biarritz

Un día de Verano en la playa

- A Summer’s Day on the Beach

Maria en la playa de Biarrits or Contraluz

Bajo el toldo, Playa de Zarauz

Clotilde y Elena en las Rocas, Jávea

Clotilde mujer y musa

Child’s Siesta

Antes del baño

Girl leaving the Bath

La bata rose o Después el baño

Después el baño

Playing in the Water

On the Sands, Valencia Beach

Ñino en Cucillas Pala de Valencia

Ñinas en el mar

Rompeolas de San Sebastián

References

Photo credits

Introduction

Joaquín Sorolla (born in Valencia 1863 - died in Cercedilla 1923) is one of the most successful Spanish painters ever. He was a genius in capturing the essence of the scene he was painting.

Joaquín Sorolla painted the most wonderful beach scenes. Every year he visited his native Valencia with its wonderful beaches and dazzling sunlight. He lived while photography was being invented and popularized. Some of his breathtaking beach scenes show how he was familiar with and employed similar techniques as the photograph. His beach paintings became enormously popular and are in many great museums.

In the course of preparing for his grand masterpiece “The Vision of Spain”, which hangs in the Hispanic Society of America, Sorolla also visited many places of Spain. Here he painted types of people and local dress which made up his vision of Spain, diverse and colorful yet united.

Enjoy this splendid beach trip!

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (born 27 February 1863 in Valencia – died 10 August 1923 in Cercedilla, Madrid) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water.

Sorolla was the eldest child born to a draper, also named Joaquin Sorolla, and his wife, Concepción Bastida, with a small shop in Valencia. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. In August 1865, both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. They were then cared for by their maternal aunt and uncle, a locksmith He received his initial art education from the age of 9 in his native town, and then under a succession of teachers including Cayetano Capuz and Salustiano Asenjo. At the age of eighteen he traveled to Madrid, vigorously studying master paintings in the Museo del Prado. After completing his military service, Sorolla, at age twenty-two, obtained a grant which enabled a four-year term to study painting in Rome, Italy, where he was welcomed by and found stability in the example of Francisco Pradilla, the director of the Spanish Academy in Rome. A long sojourn to Paris in 1885 provided his first exposure to modern painting; of special influence were exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolf von Menzel. Back in Rome he studied with José Benlliure, Emilio Sala and Jose Vellegas Cordero.

In 1888, Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo, whom he had first met in 1879, while working in her father's studio. By 1895, they would have three children together: Maria, born in 1890, Joaquín, born in 1892, and Elena, born in 1895. In 1890, they moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focused mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Chicago.

His first striking success was achieved with Another Marguerite (1892), which was awarded a gold medal at the National Exhibition in Madrid, then first prize at the Chicago International Exhibition where it was acquired and subsequently donated to the Washington University Museum in St Louis, Missouri. He soon rose to general fame and became the acknowledged head of the modern Spanish school of painting. His picture The Return from Fishing (1894) was much admired at the Paris Salon and was acquired by the state for the Musée du Luxembourg. It indicated the direction of his mature output.

Portrait of the painter Joaquín de Sorolla y Bastida by José Jiménez Aranda in 1901

Sorolla painted two masterpieces in 1897 linking art and science: Portrait of Dr. Simarro at the microscope and A Research. These paintings were presented at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Madrid in that year and Sorolla won the Prize of Honor. Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window. These paintings may be among the most outstanding world paintings of this genre. An even greater turning point in Sorolla's career was marked by the painting and exhibition of Sad Inheritance (1899), an extremely large canvas, highly finished for public consideration. The subject was a depiction of crippled children bathing at the sea in Valencia, under the supervision of a monk. They are the victims of hereditary syphilis the title implies, perhaps. Campos has suggested that the polio epidemic that struck the lands of Valencia some years earlier is present, possibly for the first time in the history of painting, through the image of two affected children. The painting earned Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honor at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, and the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid in 1901.

A series of preparatory oil sketches for Sad Inheritance were painted with the greatest luminosity and bravura, and foretold an increasing interest in shimmering light and of a medium deftly handled. Sorolla thought well enough of these sketches that he presented two of them as gifts to American artists; one to John Singer Sargent, the other to William Merritt Chase. After this painting Sorolla never returned to a theme of such overt social consciousness.

The exhibit at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 won him a medal of honour and his nomination as Knight of the Legion of Honour, within the next few years Sorolla was honoured as a member of the Fine Art Academies of Paris, Lisbon, and Valencia, and as a Favourite Son of Valencia.

A special exhibition of his works—figure subjects, landscapes and portraits—at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris in 1906 eclipsed all his earlier successes and led to his appointment as Officer of the Legion of Honour. The show included nearly 500 works, early paintings as well as recent sun-drenched beach scenes, landscapes, and portraits, a productivity which amazed critics and was a financial triumph. Though subsequent large-scale exhibitions in Germany and London were greeted with more restraint, while in England in 1908 Sorolla met Archer Milton Huntington, who made him a member of The Hispanic Society of America in New York, and invited him to exhibit there in 1909. The exhibition comprised 356 paintings, 195 of which sold. Sorolla spent five months in America and painted more than twenty portraits.

Sorolla's work is often exhibited together with that of his contemporaries and friends, John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn.

Although formal portraiture was not Sorolla's genre of preference, because it tended to restrict