Ramon casas painting
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Ramón Casas was born into a well-to-do family in Barcelona. His early inclination towards art met with no opposition from his father, an adventurer who had made his fortune in colonial Cuba. While still very young, he became a favourite student of the Barcelona painter and decorator Joan Vicens and forged ties with the budding group of intellectuals who would later run the journal L'Avenç, where his first drawing was published in 1881. That same year he moved to Paris, where he studied under the prestigious academic portraitist Carolus-Durand and discovered the fledgling French Impressionist school.
Carolus-Durand's influence is obvious in Casas's 1888 portrait of his older sister Montserrat, a large vertical female portrait, though the looser brushwork already seems to hint at a tendency towards Impressionism that would not be openly asserted in his painting for at least few more years. This piece was probably painted during a brief stint in Barcelona, sometime between an inconsequential trip to Paris in the summer of 1887 and a picturesque tour of Catalonia by cart
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Ramón Casas – The Painter of Catalan Modernism
When you think of Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, the first name that comes to mind is, of course, that of Antoni Gaudí, but Catalan art at the turn of the 20th century is much more than just Gaudí’s work. Join us today to discover the works of Ramón Casas, one of the leading representatives of Catalan modernism.
How It All Started?
Ramón Casas was born in 1866 in Barcelona to a wealthy family. His father made a fortune in Cuba and his mother came from a family that had money for generations. This gave young Casas a bit more freedom to decide his future, as money was not an issue. By 1881, at the age of 15, Casas had already co-founded a magazine, L’Avenç, and began his first stay in Paris where he joined the Carolus-Duran Academy and later the Gervex Academy. Within the next two years he exhibited his self-portrait dressed as a flamenco dancer at Salon des Champs Élysées.
From then on he shared his time between Spain and Paris, traveling frequently and developing his style. This is also when he met Santiago Ru
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Ramon Casas
Catalan artist (1866–1932)
In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Casas and the second or maternal family name is Carbó; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Ramon Casas | |
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Self-portrait, 1908 | |
| Born | Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-01-04)4 January 1866 Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 29 February 1932(1932-02-29) (aged 66) Barcelona, Spain |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Modernisme |
Ramon Casas i Carbó (Catalan pronunciation:[rəˈmoŋˈkazəs]; 4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond. He was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets (El garrot). Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as moder
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