JOSÉ LUPIÁÑEZ Y CARRASCO (Málaga, 1864 - 1938).

JOSÉ LUPIÁÑEZ Y CARRASCO (Málaga, 1864 - 1938).
"View of the Florida of Madrid".
Oil on canvas.
It has an old frame.
Signed and located in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 110 x 175 cm; 147 x 211 cm (frame).
This work is a landscape of naturalistic character in which the artist sensitively portrays the stillness of a Madrid landscape. The composition opens onto a clear space in the foreground, which leads the viewer's gaze to a low, elongated building with whitewashed walls covered with vegetation, probably the remains of an enclosure or a farm wall. The walls, partially worn down, reveal the passage of time, in contrast to the vitality of the surrounding vegetation.

The scene is dominated by the clear light of a mild day, which filters softly through the treetops, generating shadows and glints on the earthy ground. Lupiáñez uses a warm palette, with modulated greens and ochers, to convey the freshness of the foliage and the texture of the earth. The brushstrokes, although loose in the vegetation areas, become more precise in the treatment of the architecture, achieving a balance between atmospheric capture and structural detail.

From an academic perspective, this painting can be inscribed in the Spanish landscape tradition of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which sought to capture the identity of specific places and the poetry of the everyday. Lupiáñez seems interested in recording not only the place, but also the instant: the play of light, the silence and the sense of melancholic abandonment of the scene.

José Lupiáñez began his artistic training at the San Telmo School of Fine Arts in Malaga. Later he traveled to Madrid, where he entered the Special School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, where he had Carlos de Haes as his landscape teacher. He exhibited individually and collectively, and sent several works to the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts. He also participated in the Provincial of Cadiz in 1888, as well as in the International of Philadelphia in 1889, being awarded in both with Honorable Mention. There is evidence that, in 1884, he exhibited the canvas "Cercanías de Aranjuez" and, in 1910, the one entitled "Puerta de la huerta de los frailes". He was a painter of intelligent pasiajístico concept, that prolonged in the time the influence of Carlos de Haes, granting in his painting to the landscape a rare importance in the Spain of the time. He is represented in the Provincial Museum of Lugo, as well as in various national and international private collections.