BB.AA MUSEUM. Saint Pius V, 9
It is already known that putting Sorolla in the title of an exhibition sells, that is why they have embedded it in the beginning of modern painting in Spain. Joaquín Sorolla is the protagonist of the tour, but not by number of works exhibited (portraits, a still life, the harbor, the sea, boats and falleras) nor for the relevance of these in the career of the artist, but because of the influence that the Valencian master exerted on many who came after him. He was the first Spanish painter of the 19th century who, with a local theme, managed to succeed in Spain and abroad. From the canvas The return of fishing (that we can't see here) the noisy style began to be defined: customs issues, obvious brushstrokes (which sometimes reach the lump), chromatic range where violets predominate, the blues and the browns (wonderful combined with the yellow in the autumn trees) with white touches and the freedom with which he painted light and color naturally. Despite this, we cannot talk about impressionism, broadly speaking, because this is an exclusively French pictorial movement and because in Sorolla the light never comes to nullify the form. In any case, Sorolla's popularity led to the appearance of a large number of followers of his style, the so-called noisemakers, and others who ended up abandoning their influx—the post-Sorolists—i, even, renouncing him. You can discover them in this exhibition that opens the new exhibition hall in the Pérez Castiel building of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia. S.M.
