Revision materials with images

1. Basque Painters
20th century

2. Adolfo Guiard
• After learning with
Lecuona he travelled to
Paris and London.
• He was a bohemian
artist.
• He devoted mainly to
decorative painting
receiving several
commandments.
• He painter cardboards for
different buildings,
including those for the
Bellas Artes Museum.

3. • In Paris he received
Degas’s influence.
• He wanted to depict
his worries about
colour and the effect
of light on the things
he wanted to
represent.
• He was the painter of
grey and blue.

4. • Some of his most representative works are
those he painted in 1887 for the Biscayan
Society: On the Terrace and The Hunters.

5. • Sota family from
Bilbao commanded
Harvest and Promise.

6. • He made a very varied work:
drawings, watercolours, self-
portraits, oil paintings, notes
and different projects.
• Unamuno mentioned the
characteristics of his style:
– Images are silhouettes
– Given the small format, they
look to be illuminated
drawings
– Human images are natural
and appear as decorative
elements.
Txo
The Town Girl of the
Red Carnation

7. Arteta
• He entered in Bilbao’s
Arts and Crafts school
when he was thirteen
• He combined his arts
studies with his work as
an assistant in a
publishing house
• Thanks to his job he
could contact with
engraving and
lithography techniques.

8. Arteta
• When he was ill, he
obtained a grant of
Biscay’s Deputation
to study fine arts.
• His first years were of
great intensity and he
travelled to Belgium,
Italy and Paris.
• In the last city he
could exhibit his work.

9. Arteta
• When he came back to
Spain in 1911 he founded
the Basque Artists’
Society.
• He belonged to the UGT
and was member of the
socialist party. Due to this,
in 1917 his painting
became critic, dark and
full of social weight
depicting the life of the
poorest neighbourhoods
and their inhabitants.

12. Arteta
• His career became
international when first in
Paris in 1919 and then in
London in 1920 he took
part in some exhibitions.
• Between 1921 and 1923
he painted twelve
frescoes for the Bilbao’s
Bank and thanks to this
work he was appointed
director of Bilbao’s Bellas
Artes Museum in 1924.

15. Iturrino
• He was born in
Santander inside a family
from Bilbao. He spent
part of his student time in
Lieja when his interest for
painting appeared.
• He went to Paris where
he became a well
considered and paid
painter
• He presented his works
with Picasso
• He knew Matisse.

16. • Once he returned, he
went to Andalucía and he
created an axis
Andalucía-Bilbao-Paris
• In 1917 his work was
presented in the Basque
Artists’ Exhibition with
images of Andalucía,
Salamanca and Morocco.
• His palette was very
personal, with daring
colours.
• He was a fauvist
Gardens

17. Still-life
Bathers
Women playing

18. Tablada
Horses and
greyhounds
Herd of bulls

19. Dario Regoyos
• He was from Asturias.
• He painted landscapes
with very original colours.
• An important part of his
career developed in the
Basque Country.
• He studied in San
Fernando’s Art Academy.

20. • Later he travelled to
Belgium and the
Netherlands and also in
Spain
• He was member of
different circles such as:
L'Essor or Los XX.
• He organised exhibitions,
concerts and other
celebrations in order to
develop modern art,
mainly in Belgium.

21. • He travelled in Spain
where he established
after his marriage.
• His painting evolved from
a pre-symbolist
naturalism, depicting the
dark Spain to
impressionism and
pointillism.
• He was more
adventurous than
Zuloaga and Sorolla.

22. • In his maturity phase
he painted landscape
in nature (plain air) in
Biscayan and
Guipuzcoan towns.
• His drawing is naïf,
with the taste for live
colours of the time
and he was not
appreciated in Spain
at that moment.

23. Videos
• Guiard: http://bcove.me/dqqkfggz
• Arteta: http://bcove.me/b94zx0zd
• Iturrino: http://bcove.me/fpli6woj
• Regoyos: http://bcove.me/2hxv4b7v