Canals Studio

CANALS STUDIO (MIGUEL CANALS). Barcelona, 70's.
"Still life".
Oil on canvas.
Sealed on the back.
Measurements: 75 x 90 cm; 110 x 123 cm (frame).

In this canvas Estudio Canals offers us a structured still life with fruits and flowers. It is a still life inspired in those made in the XVII century, where the color prevails over the rest of pictorial aspects, although the description of the qualities and the game of lights and shades, key of the tradition of the Spanish baroque still life, also gain importance. The elements that make up the scene are placed in a staggered distribution, like wooden shelves. Peaches, bunches of red and green grapes, figs and pears are distributed around a ceramic vase decorated with vases, which holds a floral bouquet whose colors harmonize with those of the fruit pieces.

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.