Picture "Walk on the Beach" (1909), white and golden framed version
Picture "Walk on the Beach" (1909), white and golden framed version
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 71 x 70 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Walk on the Beach" (1909), white and golden framed version
Original: 1909, oil on canvas, 205 x 200 cm, Museo Sorolla, Madrid.
Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process and stretched on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Framed in handmade, white-golden solid wood frame. Size 71 x 70 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
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About Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
1863-1923
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida is one of the most important Spanish painters and draughtsmen of Impressionism.
His drawing talent was recognised at a young age. This is why his family enabled him to receive an artistic education at the Spanish art academy Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. During a study visit to Rome in 1885, he became a student of the Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. In the same year, he travelled to Paris for the first time. The works of the French Impressionists were to have a lasting influence on the young artist. After his return to Spain, Sorolla settled in Madrid and initially turned to historical themes. The influence of Impressionism brightened his colour palette and influenced his motifs more and more over the course of the following years.
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Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, whereby a distinction can be made between peasant, bourgeois and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly-galant painting became prominent while in Germany the bourgeois character was emphasised.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.
The style of Impressionism, which emerged in French painting around 1870, owes its name to Claude Monet's landscape 'Impression, Soleil Levant'. After initial rejection, it began a veritable triumphal procession.
Painters such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and others created motifs from everyday life, urban and landscape scenes in bright, natural light.
Impressionism can be seen as a reaction to academic painting. The emphasis was not on content with its strict rules of painting structure, but on the object as it appears at any given moment, in an often random cut out. The reality was seen in all its variety of colours in natural lighting. The Studio painting was replaced by open-air painting.
Through the brightening of the palette and the dissolution of firm contours, a new approach to colour emerged. In many cases, the colours were no longer mixed on the palette but side by side on the canvas so that the final impression lies in the eye of the viewer with a certain distance. In "Pointillism", (with painters such as Georges Seurat or Paul Signac) this principle was taken to the extreme.
Outside France, Impressionism was taken up by painters such as Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth in Germany, and by James A. M. Whistler in the United States.
However, Impressionism was only expressed to a limited extent in the art of sculpture. In the works of Auguste Rodin, who is considered one of the main representatives, a dissolution of surfaces is evident, in which the play of light and shadow is included in the artistic expression. Degas and Renoir created sculptures as well.