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Born 1942 Maia de Montcal, Spain. Known for: Abstract landscape painting, graphic design.
Josep Cruanas was born in 1942 in Maia de Montcal, a small village in the region of la Garrotxa -Girona-. His interest in art led him to attend drawing classes at the early age of 15 at the Art... Read full biography
Josep Cruanas was born in 1942 in Maia de Montcal, a small village in the region of la Garrotxa -Girona-. His interest in art led him to attend drawing classes at the early age of 15 at the Art School of Banyoles under the direction of Joan de Palau. Three years later he visited regularly the... Read full biography
Josep Cruanas was born in 1942 in Maia de Montcal, a small village in the region of la Garrotxa -Girona-. His interest in art led him to attend drawing classes at the early age of 15 at the Art School of Banyoles under the direction of Joan de Palau. Three years later he visited regularly the studio of the painter Joan Sibecas in Figueres, who should become an essential person in his pictorial career. Sibecas was considered as one of the initiators of cubism in Catalonia although he also... Read full biography
Josep Cruanas was born in 1942 in Maia de Montcal, a small village in the region of la Garrotxa -Girona-. His interest in art led him to attend drawing classes at the early age of 15 at the Art School of Banyoles under the direction of Joan de Palau. Three years later he visited regularly the studio of the painter Joan Sibecas in Figueres, who should become an essential person in his pictorial career. Sibecas was considered as one of the initiators of cubism in Catalonia although he also cultivated informal art in its spacial aspect dividing the canvas into fragments. His formative career continued in Barcelona where he definitely settled in 1961, which permited him to attend painting-classes from nature at the Reial Cercle Artistic I Sant... Read full biography
Josep Cruanas was born in 1942 in Maia de Montcal, a small village in the region of la Garrotxa -Girona-. His interest in art led him to attend drawing classes at the early age of 15 at the Art School of Banyoles under the direction of Joan de Palau. Three years later he visited regularly the studio of the painter Joan Sibecas in Figueres, who should become an essential person in his pictorial career. Sibecas was considered as one of the initiators of cubism in Catalonia although he also cultivated informal art in its spacial aspect dividing the canvas into fragments. His formative career continued in Barcelona where he definitely settled in 1961, which permited him to attend painting-classes from nature at the Reial Cercle Artistic I Sant Lluc. Although he was considered an autodidact artist, it is evident that those contacts to drawing and painting studios served him as a start... Read full biography
