Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Spain, Spanish Painter, 1863-1923

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Spanish painter Joaqun Sorolla Bastida lived from 27 February 1863 to 10 August 1923. He produced more than 2200 cataloged pieces, making him a prolific artist. His finished works have been classified as luminist, post-impressionist, and impressionist.

 

His parents, Joaqun Sorolla Gascón and Mara Concepción Bastida Prat, passed away when he was barely two years old. deaths caused by a cholera outbreak. He and his sister Concha were adopted by his aunt Isabel, his mother's sister, and her husband, a locksmith, when they were orphaned. His uncle spent years trying in vain to teach him the skill of locksmithing before understanding that his actual calling was painting.

 

He attended the "School of Artisans of Valencia" to study drawing. He shared a studio in Valencia with José Vilar y Torres, the three Benlliure brothers—Blas, José, and Juan Antonio—as well as Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench on the first floor of Calle Las Avellanas n.o 12. At the conclusion of his training, he started submitting his artwork to regional and national art competitions, including one in Madrid in May 1881, where he displayed three Valencian marines that were overlooked because they did not fit with the official painting, which featured historical and dramatic themes.

 

The following year, he spent time at the Prado Museum studying the works of Velázquez and other authors. After visiting the Prado Museum, Sorolla created the unpublished painting Study of Christ, which was rediscovered in 2012. In it, the crucified Christ by Velázquez is clearly visible. His master Gonzalo Salvá's "realistic stage" so begins. Finally, in 1883, he received a medal at the Valencia Regional Exhibition, and in 1884, he attained fame by winning the Second Class Medal at the National Exhibition with his dramatic and sinister piece, Defense of the Artillery Park of Monteleón, created especially for the exhibition. As he once told a colleague, "Here, to make yourself known and win medals you have to make dead."

 

El crit del palleter sobre la guerra de la Independencia, another one of his works, was a huge success in Valencia. He received a pension from the Provincial Council of Valencia in this fashion, enabling him to travel to Rome and work while encountering ancient and Renaissance art, visiting famous museums, and interacting with other artists.

 

He moved to Paris during the first half of 1885 with his friend, the painter Pedro Gil, and became well acquainted with impressionist painting. This caused him to change his theme and style while still in Rome, leading him to create the religious painting The Burial of Christ, which was not as successful as he had hoped. By doing so, he came into contact with the European avant-garde, stressing the influence of the paintings by John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, and Anders Zorn.

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He wed Clotilde Garca del Castillo in Valencia in 1888, although they would spend one more year together in Assisi, Italy. His paintings from that period include Selling Melones (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga), where he depicted anecdotal and costumbrista subjects in order to sell them quickly. They were typically miniature watercolors that his merchant, Francisco Jover, sold.

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