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Escola De La Llotja
The Escola de la Llotja (, "Llotja School"; es, Escuela de la Lonja), officially the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Barcelona (Barcelona Arts and Crafts School), is an art and design school located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The school took its name from its initial location in the Llotja de Mar palace; it was moved in 1967 to its current location at 17 Ciutat de Balaguer Street. (It also has a satellite location at 40 Padre Manyanet Street in the San Andreu neighborhood.) The first director of the school was Valencian engraver Pedro Pascual Moles, who oriented the school towards academic art advocated by painter Anton Raphael Mengs. History The school was founded by the Junta de Comerç de Barcelona in 1775 under the name ''Escola gratuïta de disseny'' as a training center for applied art. The school was first oriented around the printing of silk and cotton textiles, and later broadened its scope to include the plastic arts. The period between 1768 and 1787 was a great boom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llotja Sant Andreu
Llotja (, plural ); in an, loncha; in es, lonja; is a Catalan term for important buildings used for commercial purpose during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Ages. Many were used during the Medieval Ages for fishing and livestock markets or by brokers who used to make intermediaries. Others, the so-called Casa de Contratación de Indias, were establishments destined to the control of the commercial activity, the transit of people and expeditions between Spain and the Americas. They registered all of the merchandise that circulated between Spain and the Americas and intervened in commercial trials. Llotges in the former Crown of Aragon ; In Catalonia * Llotja de Barcelona or Llotja de Mar, (1352–1397) (enclosed and renovated in 1774–1802). * Llotja de Castelló d'Empúries (built in 1393). * Llotja de Tortosa (1368–1373). * La Porxada (1587) in Granollers. ; In Aragon * Loncha de Sos del Rey Católico (built around late-Medieval Ages and Early Modern Ages). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cèsar Martinell I Brunet
Cèsar Martinell i Brunet (Valls, 24 December 1888 - Barcelona, 19 November 1973) was a Catalan '' modernista'' architect. He was part of the small and selected group of architects that were connected to Antoni Gaudí, his most important teacher. As a multifaceted person, Martinell was also a researcher and art historian. He became famous for the many wine cellars he made for the agriculture cooperatives of different towns throughout Catalonia, especially in the south, in the Province of Tarragona. These are known as "the cathedrals of wine". Artistic style Cèsar Martinell artistic style was primarily Modernisme, with some Noucentisme. His masterpieces were his designs for wineries, which are called the cathedrals of wine (''les catedrals del vi'') due to their magnificence. The use of traditional architectural techniques and materials helped to build these monumental buildings. His wine cathedrals are located in several cities of Catalonia such as Falset, Nulles, Cornudell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa i Suñé (; born 23 August 1955) is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He is a versatile artist who has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations. He worked with renowned Catalan theatrical group La Fura dels Baus. He is better known for his large sculptures made up of letters and numbers. Biography Plensa was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He left the studies of fine arts in Barcelona and continued to train in a self-taught way. Works Plensa's works include the ''Crown Fountain'' at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in July 2004.. The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are tall,. and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces. In the summer of 2007, he participated in the Chicago public art exhibit, '' Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet''. Another Plensa piece is '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damià Campeny
Damià Campeny i Estrany (12 April 1771, Mataró - 17 July 1855, Barcelona) was a Spaniards, Spanish sculptor in the Classicism, Classical style. Biography He was born to the shoemaker, Andreu Campeny, and his wife Casilda. His first studies were at a private Catholic school.Joan Francesc Clariana Roig, ''Presència d'un mataroní oblidat: Damià Campeny a la nostra ciutat'', Grup Història Mataró, 2013 Online After completing his primary education, he studied at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona. He was also employed in the workshops of the sculptor, and, later, worked with . He then opened his own studio; receiving commissions for religious sculptures from several local parishes. In 1797, he was awarded a stipend from the Board of Trade, to continue his studies in Rome. There, he became acquainted with the famous sculptor, Antonio Canova, and spent eighteen years at the Vatican City, Vatican workshops, creating sculptures on mythological themes; such as Hercules and Neptun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Fortuny (painter) (1871–1949), Spanish fashion designer, son of the painter
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Mariano Fortuny may refer to: * Mariano Fortuny (painter) (1838–1874), Spanish painter * Mariano Fortuny (designer) Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo ( ca, Marià Fortuny i de Madrazo, italic=no, ; 11 May 1871 – 3 May 1949) was a Spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946. He was the son of the painter Mariano Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modest Cuixart
Modest Cuixart i Tàpies (born 2 November 1925 in Barcelona – died 31 October 2007 in Palamós) was a Catalan painter. He is, along with poet Joan Brossa and painters Joan Ponç, his cousin Antoni Tàpies and Joan-Josep Tharrats, the founder of surrealist et dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ... review ' in 1948. References * Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuixart, Modest 1925 births 2007 deaths Artists from Catalonia Dau al Set Spanish artists 20th-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish male artists Spanish male painters Art Informel and Tachisme painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Guinovart
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (20 March 1927 in Barcelona – 12 December 2007 in Barcelona) was a Spanish painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work. In 1941, he began to work as a decorator. Three years later, he started his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Llotja (Art School of La Llotja) where he stayed until 1946. He first exhibited his work in 1948 in Galerías Syla in Barcelona. In 1951, he produced his first engravings entitled 'Homage to Federico García Lorca'. Two years later, he was awarded a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months. Here he discovered the cubist works of Matisse and Picasso and travelled to Belgium, Holland and Germany. On his return to Barcelona and after a period working as an illustrator and set designer, around 1957 he began moving towards abstract art. His work is highly unconventional and usually on a large scale, using a wide range of materials, three-dimensional objects and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer
Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer (14 January 1928 – 16 April 2015) Born in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain. He lived and worked in Paris. During the 1950s, he was one of the most distinguished painters of Catalan art, known for creating a private language. He belonged to the Abstract Expressionism and European Informalism. These postmodern vanguardists have been characterized by their multiculturalism, manifested in their contrasting pictorial textures, and the need to invent a new mindset. Jiménez-Balaguer's purpose was to establish a framework of knowledge of the human psyche based on Ferdinand de Saussure's language model, in order to show how painting is a universal medium for the understanding of the Self. He regarded the construct of the Self as indispensable, and its visualization as vital; the human inner is neither an impalpable, untouchable soul nor an invisible, immaterial ego. His conception of creation and society involves him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Fraile
Luis Fraile (Albacete, February 7, 1947 - Madrid, January 5, 2016), was a Spanish artist with an extensive career path, who developed his activity mainly in Madrid. He embraced various trends and styles throughout his prolific artistic life, developing a style of his own around surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ..., reflecting a subconscious and dreamlike world. Biographical review He was born in Albacete (February 7, 1947), in a humble family, the first of the two children of Valentín Martínez Flores, master builder and former political prisoner after the Spanish Civil War, and Julia Fraile Montalbán, factory worker and self-sacrificing housewife. During his childhood he combines studies with several jobs, amongst others as an employee in the mythical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquin Mir Trinxet
Joaquin Mir Trinxet or Joaquin Mir y Trinxet (Catalan: ''Joaquim Mir i Trinxet'') (Barcelona 6 January 1873 – 8 April 1940) was a Catalan artist known for his use of color in his paintings. He lived through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona. His paintings helped to define the Catalan art movement known as ''modernisme''. Barcelona and Paris Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona to a well-off Catalan family. His father was representative of foreign firms, some of them from Nuremberg Mir studied at the Llotja before joining the Colla del Safrà group with Canals, Nonell, and Pichot. Thanks to an agreement with his uncle Avelino Trinxet Casas, he was able to work as a painterMuseum Library "Victor Balaguer", dossier and in 1899 Mir went to Mallorca with Santiago Rusiñol, where he met the mystic Belgian painter William Degouve de Nuncques, whose work would influence his own. Working in isolated circumstances in Mallorca, Mir painted odd landscapes in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidre Nonell
Isidre Nonell i Monturiol (; es, Isidro Nonell y Monturiol; 30 November 1872 – 21 February 1911) was a Spanish artist known for his expressive portrayal of socially marginalized individuals in late 19th-century Barcelona. Life Isidre Nonell was born in 1872 in Barcelona. His parents, Isidre Nonell i Torras de Arenys de Mar and Àngela Monturiol i Francàs of Barcelona, owned a small but prosperous factory which made soup noodles. Together with his childhood friend, Joaquim Mir, with whom he attended the same school in the neighborhood of Sant Pere in the old part of town in Barcelona, he developed artistic ambitions at an early age. His early teachers included Josep Mirabent, Gabriel Martínez Altés and Lluís Graner. From 1893 to 1895 he studied at the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona (Fine Arts School of Barcelona). He met Ricard Canals, Ramón Pichot, Juli Vallmitjana, Adrià Gual, and Joaquin Sunyer with whom he developed an interest in landscape painting, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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