JOAQUIN SOROLLA 2/3 – He was admitted to the Academy of San Carlos in Valencia at age 15. After further studies in Rome and Paris he returned to Valencia. He excelled in the painting of portraits, monumental works of social and historical themes and landscapes. Sorolla’s work is represented in many private collections throuh Europe and America. His extraordinary talent was brought to the attention of Antonia Garcia (a famous Valencian photographer), whose daughter, Clotilde, Sorolla got marry later.
JOAQUIN SOROLLA 3/3 – The warm Mediterranean sun was one of the factors, that had the greatest impact on Sorolla’s work (another factor was his visit to Prado Museum). Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects instantaneously. Using heavily impastoed pigments he combined an Impressionist manner with narrative and anecdotal themes.
The exhibition at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 brought him nomination of Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1920, while painting a portrait in his garden in Madrid, he suffered a stroke. He was paralyzed for over three years. He died in 1923, he is buried in the Cementery de Valencia. To know his artworks better, you are invited to visit the town Cercedilla and San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
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