Joan Fuster Bonnín

JOAN FUSTER BONNÍN (Palma de Mallorca, 1870 - 1943).
"Sa Foradada, Mallorca".
Oil on canvas.
Without signature.
Measurements: 48 x 65 cm; 59 x 75 cm (frame).
The landscape and the settlers of Majorca focused the artistic interests of Joan Fuster. As in this painting, he represented with great skill the Majorcan landscape, with his characteristic impressionist, loose and audacious technique.
Trained in the academic realism of Ricardo Anckermann, Fuster evolved towards the bourgeois and intimate side of modernism, influenced by Rusiñol and Casas. A good friend of Rusiñol and Mir, Fuster is today considered one of the best representatives of Balearic luminism. Gold medalist at the International Exposition of Marseilles in 1903, he was especially active during the 1920s, when he exhibited in Palma, Mahón, Barcelona, Madrid, Munich and Buenos Aires. He was also a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma. From 1921, in the face of the dominance of noucentisme and the avant-garde, he adopted a luminist, costumbrist and landscape style. Interested in open, clean and luminous spaces, he developed a personal, fluid and versatile painting. He is represented in the Council of Mallorca and in the Es Baluard Museum in Palma, as well as in important private collections. Awards: Silver Medal at the Balearic Exhibition of Soller (1887), Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Marseilles (1903), Honorable Mentions at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid (1904 and 1906). Exhibitions and tributes: Sala Goya (1918); Sala Pares (1917,1922,1926,1930); Areñas Gallery in Barcelona (1928); Layetana Gallery (1929); Círculo Bellas Artes de Palma (1945); Quint Gallery (1947); Centennial Exhibition (1970); Sala Capitular de La Cartuja (1970); Sa Llonja (1995); and within the collective exhibition "Serra de Tramuntana", at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (2015).