Catalan school; beginning of the 20th century.

Catalan school; early twentieth century.
"Coastal landscape", 1911.
Oil on cardboard.
Presents traces of signature and date in the lower right area.
Measurements: 24 x 28 cm; 42 x 49 cm (frame).
The landscape painting of the Catalan school of the early twentieth century was characterized by a special attention to light, color and atmospheric capture, in tune with the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist currents from France. The artists in this field developed a sensitive gaze towards the Mediterranean environment, where the sea, the coast and the vegetation became the protagonists of open and luminous compositions, resolved by means of a loose and vibrant brushstroke.
In this context, the present work is fully inscribed in that tradition, both for its treatment of light and for the construction of the landscape through chromatic stains that suggest rather than describe. Its execution and sensibility clearly evoke the painting of Eliseu Meifrèn, one of the main exponents of Catalan landscape painting, whose style is distinguished by the direct capture of nature and the dissolution of forms in a luminous atmosphere. Thus, the canvas recalls the artist's coastal compositions, where the balance between color, light and pictorial matter generates a poetic vision.