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Ariadne Villalonga - Reus. The writer Théophile Gautier wrote on May 19, 1870 in the Journal Office: "Have you seen the box Fortuny? This is the greeting addressed artists and fans when they are. " Mariano Fortuny (Reus, 1867 - Rome, 1874) came to enjoy life in a European-wide success, although later ended up cornered in the background. However, his virtuosity is undeniable, and in this artist does not hesitate to classify it as one of the best painters of the mid-nineteenth century. The exhibition "Fortuny myth" Salvador Vilaseca binscorner Museum Reus has until September 7 reviews the Catalan artist's career through 45 of his works, including paintings as well known as The Vicar (1867-1870), L'Odalisque (1861) and the collector of stamps (1867). This exhibition has been organized in the framework of the International Year Fortuny, which celebrates the 175th anniversary of his birth. "Today is the Vicar home-he said Reus, Carlos Pellicer, at the opening ceremony of the exhibition-. Since 1974 many works not exhibited together Fortuny Reus. " Attending the opening ceremony, from left to right: Carlos Pellicer, mayor of Reus; the Minister of Culture, Ferran Mascarell; Vice President of Tarragona, Albert VALLVÉ, and exhibition curator Jordi Carbonell Angel
The exhibition "Fortuny myth" was co-produced by the Municipal Museum of Reus and the MNAC, which has given many of the works exhibited. The curators of the exhibition are two experts in the figure painter Reus: the head of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the MNAC, Quílez Francisco, and Professor of Art History at the URV Angel Jordi Carbonell. Professor Carbonell argued that "Fortuny has nothing to envy to modernity (referring to imminently later Impressionist artists); when untethered comb is the best there is on the European scene in the mid-nineteenth century. " Fortuny Mariano Fortuny binscorner modernity itself highlighted two issues in particular painting, genre painting or call customs and Orientalism. The paintings customs as Vicar, representing daily life, contributed to its commercial success, because binscorner he was a nice theme, appreciated by wealthy bourgeoisie of the time. In genre painting showed great technical virtuosity and style differential overflowing their colors, the light treatment, his way of applying paint in small spots and infiltration binscorner in custom themes with a sense of humor a little Goya. In 1860 the Barcelona Provincial Council ordered graphic documentation Fortuny War of Africa, where they left pictures as The Battle of Tetuan. There, the artist released many academicism and get a free new style and fluidity. Later he moved to Italy and made several trips to Arab countries is Eastern themed pictures where you see the true Fortuny: "When I came off the market and business demands and painted what he turned binscorner out to be really innovative, but not following the trends of Paris, but their own modernity, its own paradigm, "said Commissioner Carbonell.
Portrait of Mariano Fortuny in the background. In the foreground, The child in Portici (1874) ahead of its time The last four years of his life were exceptional, with a new release of its style. In the spring of 1870, after great success in Paris, the height of his commercial success, his style took a new turn towards a more formally daring and expressive painting "was already released in some way in Africa, but when he thought he had made enough money and broke the market, he began working in areas nearby, a bill drafted by brushstroke agile and filled with paste-Carbonell said. Grew up very Impressionists. " Fortuny binscorner was only six years younger than Edouard Manet, known as the father of the Impressionists, who never failed to paint the fluidity of recent paintings of Catalan. Mariano Fortuny died the year they became the first Impressionist exhibition, in which Monet painted Impression of the rising sun. He advanced to the French binscorner conception of his predecessors, but his own way, and he died just as contemporary painting began to wake up.
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