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 > Years of Training > A Discovery of Color… > …and Light dilluns, 24 de novembre de 2003
From October 17, 2003 to January 18, 2004 the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) is host to a retrospective exhibition of the work of Marià Fortuny i Marsal (1838-1874), considered one of the greatest Catalan painters of the 19th century.
The exhibition brings together a total of one hundred and thirty-seven works by the Reus native. Although many of the paintings have come out of the MNAC fonds itself, there are also a number of pieces that originate from different museums around the world, European and American museums in particular, such as the Museo del Prado, the Musée d'Orsay, the British Museum, the National Gallery and the New York Metropolitan Museum. In many instances, some of these pieces have never been seen before in our country. The collection aims to vindicate the figure of the painter Fortuny, as although tremendously famous while alive, given that he was widely recognized and admired internationally, his work today is insufficiently recognized by a larger public despite its significant value. His body of work is characterized by its significant preciosity, by an exquisite technical virtuosity and by a use of pure and luminous color, aspects which link it with impressionism, as we will note immediately following while reading about the three periods into which his artistic career is divided.
 
Years of Training
+ Marià Fortuny was born in Reus in 1838.
Born in Reus (Baix Camp) in 1838, Fortuny began his formative years in this dynamic city at the hand of local artist Domènec Soberano. Orphaned at a young age, at fourteen he moved to Barcelona with his grand-father, who was quick to note his grandson's artistic abilities. Fortuny began attending classes at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by the Nazarene movement, represented by Pau Milà i Fontanals and Claudi Lorenzale, among others. This pictorial movement, which was linked to Romanticism, searched for inspiration in the Medieval past and is characterized by its purity of line, such as is clearly evident in Fortuny's painting titled 'Ramon Berenguer III at Fòs Castle'. It was precisely this work which, following recognition from the Barcelona Provincial Council, permitted Fortuny to move to Rome in order to complete his artistic training. He produced two quite significant works while in the Italian city: 'Il Contino' and 'The Odalisque'.
A Discovery of Color…
+ 'The Vicarage', painted by Fortuny in 1870.
With the war between Spain and Morocco underway (1859), it was the Barcelona Provincial Council itself that commissioned Fortuny to portray the gestures of the Catalan soldiers fighting under the orders of General Prim. However, Fortuny only went on to paint a single portrait, 'The Battle of Tetuan', which he eventually left unfinished. And yet the Moroccan landscape left a significant impression on Fortuny, evident in his work, as he became much more of a colorist from that moment forward. His work corresponding to the genre, in other words, works of a more popular, anecdotal or intimate nature that fall within the decade of the 1860s give proof of this fact. Worthy of noting among these are 'The Print Collector' and 'The Vicarage'.
…and Light)
+ Fortuny captured the effects and contrasts of lights with great mastery.
By the beginning of the 1870s, Fortuny was already an established artist, evident by the fact that successful exhibitions were being given of his work in the galleries of Paris, the artistic capital of Europe. And yet, the work of this painter from Reus had yet another new creative turn to take, which was to occur in Granada, a city which offers considerable artistic heritage. Fortuny stayed on for two years (1870-1872) in the Andalusian city, painting scenes in the open air in which he captured the effects and contrasts of lights with great mastery. He went on to do the same in the city of Portici, in the Bay of Naples (Italy), while in contact with the luminosity of the Mediterranean. Some of his most celebrated work corresponds to this prolific period, such as 'Choosing a Model', 'The Poets' Garden' and 'Nude on the Beach'.
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> Marià Fortuny fou un gran admirador de l'obra pictòrica del Rafaello.
> 'La vicaria', una gran obra de Fortuny.
I també...
- L'obra de Fortuny manté punts en comú amb el corrent pictòric impressionista.
- 'L'elecció de la model', obra culminant de la darrera etapa artística de Marià Fortuny.
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