Joaquín Sorolla Family E-Book

Cristina Berna

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 152

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. He was a master of light. Joaquín Sorolla loved his wife and his family. He painted them all the time. He lived in the time when photography was being invented and commercialized. Sorolla created a virtual family album with his wonderful paintings. He invited us to see and share his happiness. Sorolla was not shy about his family as many of his contemporaries were. He sold many paintings that showed his family, especially his daughter María was a favorite with the public, and Sorolla jokingly called María the breadwinner of the family. He wanted us to share his view of the ideal family as he shared his view of a great and united Spain. Sorolla painted dogs and a cat as pets, as part of the family, superbly catching their soul and character.

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About the authors

Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She also creates designs and advice on fashion and styling.

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

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Cover picture:

Front: “Madre” - Mother, 1895

Inside: “My Wife and Daughters in the Garden”,

1910

Content

Introduction

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Formative period 1863-1886

“Autoretrato en perfil”

1878

“Retrato de Don Antonio Garcia del Castillo”

1887

"Clotilde en la ventana"

1888

“

The Painter’s Studio

” 1888

“

El Crit de Pelleter”

1884

“

Perfil de Clotilde

” 1888

Consolidation period 1889-1899

“Retrato de Clotilde Garcia del Castillo”

1890

“Portrait of Clotilde”

1891

“Clotilde contemplating Venus de Milo

" 1894

“

Maria Sorolla

or

The Baby Girl

" 1893

"

Joaquín con una bolar

" 1894

"

Madre - Mother

" 1895

“Joaquín Sorolla Garcia vestido de blanco”

1896

"

El Príncipe Felipe Próspero

" 1659

“Baltasar Carlos, Principe de Asturias”

ca 1637

“Mis chicos”

1897

“Elena con muñeca”

1897

"

Mi mujer y mis hijos

" 1897-1898

"

Elenita at her desk

" 1898

“El Beso”

1899

Culmination period 1900-1910

“Clotilde con traje gris”

1900

“Maria”

1900

“Self Portrait”

1900

“Clotilde en el estudio”

1900

“Mi familia

- My Family

”

1901

“

Portrait of Joaquin Sorolla by Christian Franzen

”

1901

“Señora de Sorolla in White”

1902

“Clotilde in Black”

1902

“Clotilde desnudo

or

Desnudo de mujer”

1902

“El perro de familia Sorolla”

1903

“Suspense”

1894

“Elenita at the Beach, Asturias”

1903

“

Maria vestida de blanco”

1903-1904

“Autoretratro”

1904

“

Clotilde en la playa”

1904

“

Mis Hijos

- My children

”

1904

“La siesta en el jardin”

1904

“Self Portrait”

1905

"Clotilde y Elena en las rochas, Jávea"

1905

“Maria and her Grandmother Clotilde”

1905

“

My Children’s Grandparents

” 1905

“Joaquin y su perro”

1905

“Señora de Sorolla”

1906

“Lighthouse Walk at Biarritz”

1906

“

Vista de La Pedriza desde El Pardo”

“Maria Sick”

1907

“

Maria Convalescing in El Pardo

" 1907

"

Maria painting at El Pardo

" 1907

"

Maria en La Granja

" 1907

“Maria en los jardines de La Granja”

1907

"

Saltando a la Comba, La Granja”

1907

“Elena entra rosas”

1907

“Watching the Fish”

1907

“Maria dressed as a Valencian peasant girl

” 1906

"

Clotilde en los jardines de la Granja

" 1907

"

Portrait of Joaquín Sorolla by Gertrude Kasebier

" 1908

“Elena and Maria, the Painter’s Daughters, on Horseback in Valencian Period Costumes”

1908

"

Feria de Abril 15, Sevilla

" 2018

“Antonio Garcia”

1908

“The Photographer Antonio Garcia in his Laboratory

“ 1908

“Family reunion at Garcia Peris

“ 1907

“Paseo a la orilla del mar

-

Walk on the Beach

”

1909

“Elena en la playa”

1909

“Antonio García en la playa”

1909

“Self Portrait”

1909

“Portrait of a Jack Russell”

1909

“Elena vestida con túnica amarilla”

1909

“

Maria in Red Blouse”

1910

“

Maria on the Beach at Zarauz”

1910

“

Bajo el toldo. Zarauz

- Under the awning. Zarauz

”

1910

“Bajo el toldo, playa de Zarauzay”

1905

“Clotilde in the Garden”

1910

" “Clotilde with Hat"

1910

“Clotilde y gato y perro”

1910

“

Joaquin Sorolla y su perro

” 1910

“Clotilde in Evening Dress”

1910

“Clotilde Sitting on the Sofa”

1910

“Maria con mantilla”

1910

“María con sombrero”

1910

“

My Wife and Daughters in the Garden

" 1910

Final Period 1911-1920

"

Casa Sorolla

" (1911)

“Sorolla Museum, Varios Cuadros”

"

Museo Sorolla

"

“La Siesta”

1911

“Self Portrait”

1912

“Self Portrait

” 1915

"

Riding en Croupe, Valencia

" 1916

"

Joaquín Sorolla y Garcia sentado

" 1917

“Retrato de la cantate Raquel Meller”

1918

"

Quinquet Pons-Sorolla

" 1917

“Taking Tea”

1918

“Clotilde en el jardin

“ 1919-1920

Honors

“Self Portrait - A mi Clotilde”

1909

References

Photo credits

Note

A mi Clotilde, Self portrait 1909

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. He was a master of light.

Joaquín Sorolla loved his wife and his family. He painted them all the time. He lived in the time when photography was being invented and commercialized. Sorolla created a virtual family album with his wonderful paintings. He invited us to see and share his happiness. Sorolla was not shy about his family as many of his contemporaries were.

He sold many paintings that showed his family, especially his daughter María was a favorite with the public, and Sorolla jokingly called María the breadwinner of the family. He wanted us to share his view of the ideal family as he shared his view of a great and united Spain. Sorolla painted dogs and a cat as pets, as part of the family, superbly catching their soul and character.

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 tradesman, also named Joaquin Sorolla, and his wife, Concepción Bastida. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. In August 1865, both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. The children 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

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

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.

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 land 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 his creative appetites and could reflect his lack of interest in his subjects, the acceptance of portrait commissions proved profitable, and the portrayal of his family was irresistible. Sometimes the influence of Velázquez was uppermost, as in My Family (1901), a reference to Las Meninas which grouped his wife and children in the foreground, the painter reflected, at work, in a distant mirror. At other times the desire to compete with his friend John Singer Sargent was evident, as in Portrait of Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris and her children (1911). A series of portraits produced in the United States in 1909, commissioned through the Hispanic Society of America, was capped by the Portrait of Mr. Taft, President of the United States This portrait, which was painted at the White House, is on permanent display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The appearance of sunlight could be counted on to rouse his interest, and it was outdoors where he found his ideal portrait settings. Thus, not only did his daughter pose standing in a sun-dappled landscape for María at La Granja (1907), but so did Spanish royalty, for the Portrait of King Alfonso XIII in a Hussar's Uniform (1907). For Portrait of Mr. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1911), the American artist posed seated at his easel in his Long Island garden, surrounded by extravagant flowers. The conceit reaches its high point in My Wife and Daughters in the Garden (1910), in which the idea of traditional portraiture gives way to the sheer fluid delight of a painting constructed with thick passages of color, Sorolla's love of family and sunlight merged.

Early in 1911, Sorolla visited the United States for a second time, and exhibited 152 new paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum and 161 at the Art Institute of Chicago a few weeks later. Later that year Sorolla met Archie Huntington in Paris and signed a contract to paint a series of oils on life in Spain. These 14 magnificent murals, installed to this day in the Hispanic Society of America building in Manhattan, range from 12 to 14 feet in height, and total 227 feet in length. The major commission of his career, it would dominate the later years of Sorolla's life.

Huntington had envisioned the work depicting a history of Spain, but the painter preferred the less specific 'Vision of Spain', eventually opting for a representation of the regions of the Iberian Peninsula, and calling it The Provinces of Spain. Despite the immensity of the canvases, Sorolla painted all but one en plein air, and travelled to the specific locales to paint them: Navarre, Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia, Elche ,Sevilla, Andalusia, Extremadura, Galicia, Guipuzca, Castile, León and Ayamonte, at each site painting models posed in local costume. Each mural celebrated the landscape and culture of its region, panoramas composed of throngs of laborers and locals. By 1917 he was, by his own admission, exhausted. He completed the final panel by July 1919.

Sorolla suffered a stroke in 1920, while painting a portrait in his garden in Madrid. Paralysed for over three years, he died on 10 August 1923. He is buried in the Cementeri de Valencia, Spain.

The Sorolla Room, housing the Provinces of Spain at the Hispanic Society of America, opened to the public in 1926. The room closed for remodeling in 2008, and the murals toured museums in Spain for the first time. The Sorolla Room reopened in 2010, with the murals on permanent display.

Sorolla's influence on some other Spanish painters, such as Alberto Play Rubio and Julio Romero de Torres, was so noted that they are described as "sorollista."

After his death, Sorolla's widow, Clotilde García del Castillo, left many of his paintings to the Spanish public. The paintings eventually formed the collection that is now known as the Museo Sorolla, which was the artist's house in Madrid.

The museum opened in 1932.

Sorolla's work is represented in museums throughout Spain, Europe, America, and in many private collections in Europe and America. In 1933, J. Paul Getty purchased ten impressionist beach scenes made by Sorolla, several of which are now housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The Spanish National Dance Company honored the painter's The Provinces of Spain by producing a ballet Sorolla based on the paintings.

A high-speed RENFE train station has been named after Sorolla in Valencia.

Formative period (1863-1886)

Important works

Estudio de pies (1876-79).

Exótico (1876-79).

Concepción de los Venerables (1876-79).

Niño dormido (1876-79).

Marina (1881).

Retrato de anciano (ca.1880).

Estudio de Cristo (1883).

Autoretrato en perfil

Autoretrato en perfil - Self portrait in profile

1878 - 1895, painting, oil on canvas

Museo Sorolla, image: Botaurus

The story of Joaquín Sorolla is extraordinary. His father and mother owned a fabric shop Six Dits