Cala Forn

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Location: 
Sala 070
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Joaquim Sunyer
Sitges, 1874-1956
Museum tags: 
Social tags: 
  • Noucentisme
  • landscape
Description:

After a few years in Paris, where he was influenced by the French Post-Impressionists before adopting a language similar to Cézanne's, Sunyer returned to Catalonia, where he made his name as the leader of Noucentisme, an artistic movement that preached a return to classical models and upheld figurative art in opposition to the avant-garde movements. 'Cala Forn', one of Sunyer's and Noucentisme's most paradigmatic works, marked the peak of his creative development. With its great expressive power and feeling, the artist achieves perfect integration of the figures in the landscape, not limiting them to reproductions of everyday reality but turning them into symbols of the Catalonia of the time.

Painting

1917

120 x 140.5 cm

Given by the Association of Friends of the Arts, 1918

Inventory number: 

011004-000

Century: 20th
Subject: Genre and society
Oil on canvas
image for: Joaquim Sunyer - Cala Forn - Sitges, 1917
Joaquim Sunyer - Cala Forn - Sitges, 1917
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Joaquim Sunyer - Cala Forn - Sitges, 1917 [1]
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Joaquim Sunyer - Cala Forn - Sitges, 1917 [2]
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