Spanish school; 20th century.

Spanish school; 20th century.
"Fallera".
Oil on canvas.
It has damage in the frame.
Measurements: 38 x 30 cm; 53 x 45 cm (frame).
Female portrait in which the author presents only the bust of the protagonist. The woman shows her face slightly tilted, in which we can observe an elaborated hairstyle allusive to those that the falleras usually wear. The fast and loose brushstroke allows the image to create a natural, snapshot-like image.
Traditionally, Spanish painting and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries have been interested in popular customs and types. Sorolla himself commented "I want to give, always within the verism of my school, a representation of Spain; not looking for philosophies, but the picturesque of each region". This trend spread throughout all the provinces of Spain, Andalusia being the most famous in the representation of popular life. Therefore, this type of work was very common and appreciated in Spanish art from the nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century. Where the creation of popular patterns portrayed through an idyllic vision where the author is influenced by an aesthetic and romantic heritage, developed during the second half of the nineteenth century and which resulted in a localist conception of the landscape, in works that reflected the love for the land itself and the beauty and lyricism of the everyday, the close, the familiar.