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"A tour-experience, training and homage, by the history of painting, where with Valencian painters of all times, the diversity of styles and fashions in the art of painting is exposed."
"Joaquín Sorolla, the most universal Valencian painter chairs the center accompanied by Audrey Hepburn's pop portrait of Antonio Felipe."
Sorolla
"Discover and meet a selection of our most important painters of the history of art, turn aorund our falla, laugh, dream, enjoy and paint Valencia."
"If there is a Valencian painter loved, recognized and original, that's Joaquín Sorolla.
Master and genius of painting, his brushwork and his concern for capturing the light lay the foundation of a personal style that few can mimic.
Despite having his home and studio in Madrid, always takes Valencia in his landscapes and the light of Malvarrosa in his heart."
Audrey Hepburn pop portrait by Antonio de Felipe
Antonio de Felipe
Carmen Calvo
The primary colors
"Poster art, closely linked to painting, has had in Valencia important poster artists such as Segrelles and Renau, and still alive and active Rafael Contreras, poster artist and scholar of valencian poster."
"In the entourage of kings has always been a place for the official painter or King's Chamber painter and three have been the Valencian that belonged to the Royal Court.
At the time of Philip II, we find the Valencian portraitist Claudio Coello. In the court of Charles IV, Salvador Maella is responsible for painting the royal family, and Vicente López, disciple of Goya,
enjoys great fame at the court of Ferdinand VI and Isabella II."
Sánchez Coello
Vicente López and Salvador Maella
"In 1768 a group of artists, among whom was the painter Jose Vergara, founded the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos..
The painters left going to learn in the workshop to train in the art of painting at the Academy, origin of the current Faculty of Fine Arts,
where currently continues to be taught to future artists: paintings, drawings, sculpture and restoration ."
Jose Vergara
Crónica team
"In the seventies the Chronicle team marks a shift in contemporary painting by mixing the American Pop Art and social criticism.
This team consisted of Manolo Valdés and Rafael Sorbes. At present, Pop art continues with Antonio de Felipe, highlighting
of his paintings his particular vision of actress Audrey Hepburn."
"In classical painting, we found painters of great fame in Valencia at the time.
In the fifteenth century, the gold century of Valencian,stand out, among painters of altarpieces, Gonçal Perís and Jacomart.
In the Renaissance, is the Macip family that revolutionized the artistic atmosphere, Vicente Macip introduces Raphael's painting,
fashionable in Italy, and his son Juan de Juanes settles it. Daughter of Juan, Margarita Macip appears as the first woman painter
of Valencia signing paintings."
Juan de Juanes, Margarita Macip, Vicente Macip
Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa
Jose Ribera, Jacomart
"In the early twentieth century, besides Sorolla, we find other outstanding painters who
paint the landscape and people of the time.
Valencian scenes and portrait painters with more academic style like Jose Benlliure and Jose Mongrell, and painters with a
looser and expressive brushwork as Ignacio Pinazo and Antonio Muñoz Degrain."
Jose Mongrell
Ignacio Pinazo, Jose Benlliure, Peppino Benlliure