BB.AA MUSEUM. Saint Pius V, 9
It was the year for the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia to once again dedicate a room dedicated to the most distinguished Valencian painter of all time.. There was a, which was dismantled in 2019, and this 2023 Two factors have come together that favor the new launch: the centenary of the artist's death and the acquisition by the Generalitat Valenciana of the Lladró Collection and its seven Sorollas. The proposal is not even close to the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, that's another league, but it marks muscle (little), serves as a claim and does justice by integrating Sorolla into the list of artists like Pinazo, Degrain or Benlliure have monographic rooms within the museographic route. They expose themselves 46 of the 54 pieces by Sorolla kept by the museum to give an idea of their versatility, starting with a still life of 1878 (the oldest surviving work of his) acquired by Antonio García Peris in a stall in the Mercat Central before knowing that Sorolla became his son-in-law. The paintings with which Sorolla competed to win the pension from the Diputació de València are exhibited (signed with a J), a masterpiece of youth like The boy with the ball, marinas, landscapes and the gigantic I am the bread of life, a canvas with a religious theme that is unusual in the Valencian's pictorial production. and portraits, many portraits. Sorolla handled the genre very differently depending on the theme.: intimate in family portraits, psychological effects in male portraits such as that of Luís Tramoyeres (first director of the Museum of Fine Arts), somewhat pompous like that of the zarzuela singer Isabel Bru or customary like Group valenciana, where his two children, Maria and Joaquín, They pose in traditional Valencian clothing on a richly caparisoned horse.. What more could you ask for from the Sala Sorolla?? The pictures Father Jofré defending a madman o Palleter's screamproperty of the County Council, but for now, this is what there is. S.M.
