Canals Studio

CANALS STUDIO (Barcelona, 70's).
"Still life".
Oil on canvas.
Stamped on stretcher frame.
Measurements: 70 x 96 cm.

In this canvas Estudio Canals offers us a still life of fruits, lobster and other items of great exuberance, also adorned with the presence of the feathers of an animal, possibly an exotic bird of striking white plumage. It is a still life inspired by those made in the 17th century, where color prevails over the rest of the pictorial aspects, although the description of the qualities and the play of light and shadow, key elements of the Spanish Baroque still life tradition, are also important. The elements that make up the scene are placed on a table placed parallel to the lower margin of the painting, whose molded perimeter is highlighted by the effects of light.

Estudio Canals was an artistic group created in Barcelona during the 1970s. It is a small group of painters who inspired their works in the classics, bringing the painting of the great masters to modernity. Its greatest representative was the painter Miguel Canals, a great connoisseur of techniques and languages from different periods. He bequeathed us a huge variety of works inspired by the Renaissance, the Baroque, impressionism... Seurat's bathers, Monet's water lily pond, Pissarro's landscapes, Degas' dancers, English hunting scenes, Venetian capriccios, Van Gogh's igneous fields, quatrocentistas virgins... Canals, with his virtuosity and versatility, made a name for himself among art history collectors. Although he did not try to copy, but to create a kind of symbiosis with the original. A connoisseur of ancient techniques, he sometimes gave a period patina to his paintings, but with no intention of deceiving, but rather, as he said, he wanted future experts to know that it was a contemporary work.