Joan Mas i Ramon (
Barcelona, 1934) is a
post-impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
style
fine artist based at
Barcelona and
Paris.
Biography
Joan Mas was born in Barcelona in 1934. He went to Paris in the late 1950s, when he studied painting under the guidance of
Roger Chastel
Roger Chastel (Édouard Henri Roger Chastel; 25 March 1897 in Paris – 12 July 1981 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.''Archives de l’état civil de Paris en ligne'', acte de naissance /420/1897, avec mention marginale du décès) was a French painter ...
at the
ENSBA (
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts) in Paris, from 1961 to 1968. Since then, his work has been exhibited mainly in Europe, specially at Barcelona and Paris.
.
[''Diccionario de Pintores y Escultores españoles del Siglo XX'', Fundación Banco Exterior, 1996, ]
Work
His painting was created in the
post-impressionism with influences of
cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
,
abstract art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
and the new figurative. It departs from the conventional dogmas of landscape painting, to give life to a remarkably personal language.
References
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1934 births
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters
Painters from Barcelona
Living people
École des Beaux-Arts alumni