BULLS AND RELIGIOUSNESS IN SPANISH PAINTING
Above all, Spain is a way of being, where Culture is an essence reflection that goes beyond time. Bulls, Religious Passion, Cooking, Soccer and Arts are, among others, characteristics of a nation that inspires and attracts locals and outsiders.
Passions that turns into Paintings
Religiousness embraces the feeling of God’s devotion, alongside the admiration of those who entice fate and who faces death in a performance of the ‘Fiesta Brava’, with the cultural characteristics that inspired more admiration for the Spanish painters.
Paintings of Religious Customs
In Spain, as people of faith and admiration by God’s work, that we can see on many paintings of its famous artists, ranging from the Gold Century´s devoted, to the greats of Surrealism. Joaquin Sorolla dazzles us with his immortal piece, “The Nazarenes,” in honour of the Holy Week. While Gutiérrez Solana portrays the processions from images that were influenced by the Baroque and its dark colors. Also, Ignacio Zuloaga calls religious issues, typical of the Spanish celebrations and Velazquez that astonishes us with his immortal piece, “Adoration of the Magi”, that reflects one of the common Spanish religious traditions.
Bullfighting in the Spanish Painting
On the same way, Picasso would be one of the Spanish painters who left the mark of the Bullfighting’s enigma, on many of his works, from simple lines and even rough that in few strokes describes the feeling that permeates the bullring, through that apology flanked in the death. “Before the Bullfight” of Ignacio Zuloaga is other of the immortal works that reflects everything that surrounds the ‘Fiesta Brava’. Works that, among many others that belong to the Spanish Costumbrismo, focus on this matter that nowadays take part of the Iberian identity.
