VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
With Francisco Domingo Marqués and the idolized Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Pinazo (1849-1916) completes the trident of great Valencian painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this exhibition that will occupy the IVAM's La Muralla room for a whole year we will see Pinazo more disruptive and daring, than with free strokes, explosions of color and material painting marked where the strokes of the new painting could go. Like the canvases of the French Impressionists that went on sale in 1874, those of Pinazo were not well understood by his contemporaries, who they felt had good intentions, but solved in a very "rough" way. This happens to those who innovate and break seams. He did it technically and thematically. In The spirit of an era we will see free strokes that convey the vitality and movement of the moment, many turns on small formed tablet that ends up integrated into the painting by the fusion of form and background. An unfinished bed, a face without a face… The human figure can end up reduced to minimal expression (even diluting in the landscape) and faces disappear in an atmosphere captured with only four elements. He was a master of synthesis, in addition to the light. S.M.
