Rodrigo Rausell

RODRIGO RAUSELL (Valencia, 1929).
"Canal grande Venecia", 1977.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 54 x 74 cm; 79 x 97 cm (frame).
Rodrigo Rausell was a painter of Valencian origin whose work is characterized by a delicate balance between tradition and modernity. Trained in the post-war Valencian artistic environment, Rausell developed his own pictorial language that combined the heritage of Mediterranean painting, luminosity, chromatic richness and attention to the landscape, with a contemporary sensibility, attentive to the plastic transformations of the mid-twentieth century.
His production moves between landscape, still life and the human figure, with a loose and expressive brushstroke that reveals his interest in pictorial matter and color as protagonists of the composition. He participated in collective and individual exhibitions that placed him in the artistic panorama of the Spain of his time, standing out for his ability to capture the atmosphere and emotion in everyday scenes.
Narratively, his work can be read as a testimony of the persistence of the poetic in an era of change, where the artist maintains a commitment to painting as a means of sensory and spiritual exploration. Rausell contributed to consolidate the identity of the Valencian school of the 20th century, leaving a legacy that dialogues with the visual memory of his land.