Source: Buscobiographies website

We continue with our monthly visits to the Prado. This month of May, with overflowing spring and summer heat at times, we choose a refreshing painting, “Boys on the Beach” de Joaquín Sorolla, an oil painting from 1909 that the painter donated to the Prado Museum in 1919.

The Valencian was one of the most prolific Spanish painters, with more than 2.000 canvases catalogued. His style is personal and unmistakable. The characteristics of his painting make it difficult to pigeonhole him into one artistic movement. He has been labelled as an impressionist, post-impressionist and luminist. His luminist period began after a trip to Paris in 1894, after which he began to paint outdoors, masterfully dominating light and combining it with everyday scenes and landscapes of Mediterranean life. It was undoubtedly one of his favourite subjects, and his dedication to the Levantine landscape stands out, with a coastal atmosphere, always with a human presence, which he captures with an absolute protagonism of light, which manages to make the colours vibrate and mark the movement of the figures.

We will also visit in 365 days in Madrid, its house museum, whose garden is an almost obligatory visit in our Bike route through the hidden gardens of Madrid.

A abrazo.