JOAQUIN SOROLLA AND THE LIGHT IN HIS GARDENS
To shape the world the way he felt it, always was one of the goals of Joaquín Sorolla, the Valentian painter to whom nature was his milieu and light was the form to create.
The Natural to Sorolla, had a core meaning in his life, he admired little things, those details that he discovered every day, the essence of flowers delighted him. When he was traveling, each letter he sent to her wife was scented with jasmine, lille, or lavender flowers, this was the best part for him, to express his love and yearning.
Sorolla spent hours in the gardens while unveiling the light and color dance, trying to capture the best moments for his flowers, the faint and bright nuances of that Impressionist Naturalism.
A Window to Intimacy
It was such the fascination for gardens and natural life of Sorolla, that between 1916 and 1920, brought to canvas every detail of his Madrilenian garden’s house; there were no more prints of the mediterranean beach full of the external, the main motif of his oil painting; for those years he was much more mature and recognized, it was the intimacy, the closest, the fine detail of some flowers; then, that turned into the same meaning of plastic expression, beyond light, there is a soft sensation of warmth and wellness that remains in whom feels it. The daily challenge of the artist, was attain to express it.
Sorolla’s Museum
The house, so many times painted, became by itself an art motif, the Sorolla’s Museum in Madrid, now allows us to enjoy the gardens that captivated so much the Valentian artist, who with his work “The Pool”, would begin to recreate those places that transmitted him a peace of mind.
