Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in... Read full biography
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens. He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and... Read full biography
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens. He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and also left a lot of modernist* buildings in Sitges, a town in Catalonia very influenced by that artist. He attended the Gervex Academy in Paris where he discovered his love for modernism. He was most... Read full biography
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens. He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and also left a lot of modernist* buildings in Sitges, a town in Catalonia very influenced by that artist. He attended the Gervex Academy in Paris where he discovered his love for modernism. He was most known for his plays, and for landscape and garden paintings. After leaving school he worked in his family's textile businesses, but he quickly broke with this family tradition and left to embark upon a career as an artist. Largely self-taught, he... Read full biography
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens. He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and also left a lot of modernist* buildings in Sitges, a town in Catalonia very influenced by that artist. He attended the Gervex Academy in Paris where he discovered his love for modernism. He was most known for his plays, and for landscape and garden paintings. After leaving school he worked in his family's textile businesses, but he quickly broke with this family tradition and left to embark upon a career as an artist. Largely self-taught, he developed his own technical capacity in the Centre d'aquarelistes de Barcelona (Watercolour Center of Barcelona), and... Read full biography
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Painted in June 1898 in Ja´vea. Sorolla had first visited Ja´vea two years before on his own when he had been overcome by the beauty of the location. Writing to his wife Clotilde at the time he eulogised: 'this - Ja´vea - has everything I desire and more