Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench
| Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench | |
|---|---|
 Self-portrait | |
| Born |
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench January 11, 1849 Valencia, Spain |
| Died |
October 18, 1916 (aged 67) Godella, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Romantic |
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench (Valencia, January 11, 1849 – Godella, October 18, 1916) was a Spanish painter, and one of the most prominent artists of Valencia from the end of the nineteenth century, working in the Impressionist style.
Biography
Born into a poor family, Pinazo was forced from a young age to assist in supporting the family by practising various trades. He had only attended eight grades when his mother died of the cholera, and young Ignazio was variously employed as a silversmith, a painter of tiles, and a decorator of fans. After his father's death, he lived with his grandparents, and in 1864 enrolled in the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, Valencia, earning his living as a hatter.
His artistic career started when he was 21, and he achieved his first success in Barcelona three years later. In 1871, work by him was displayed in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for the first time.
He visited Rome twice, the first time (1873) thanks to the sale of a painting. From 1876 to 1881 he lived in that city on a grant.
When he returned to his native city in 1874, he abandoned the conventional historic themes he had so far devoted his efforts to, and instead started painting family subjects, nude figures, and scenes from daily life, thereby anticipating Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida and Francisco Domingo both in subject and style. This is the beginning of a more intimate, Impressionist style.
In 1884, due to a cholera epidemic in Valencia, Pinazo temporarily moved to the town of Bétera, where he stayed in the villa “Maria” of the banker Jose Jaumandreu. From 1884 to 1886 he taught at the School of Valencia. He received many commissions from the Valencian aristocracy, among them the Marchioness of Benicarló.
The annual art exhibitions brought Pinazo silver medals in 1881 and 1885, and gold medals in 1887 and 1899. He also received a royal medal and in 1912 a street in Valencia was named after him.
He was married to Teresa Martinez Montfort. They had two sons, Ignacio and Jose, both of whom became painters themselves.
Work
Ignazio Pinazo worked with dark colours: black, brown and other earth-like shades, as well as in the scintillating palette typical of Impressionism. His work often shows rapid brush strokes. Paintings include:
- Las hijas del Cid (1879)
- Los últimos momentos del rey Don Jaime el Conquistador en el acto de entregar su espada a su hijo Don Pedro
- El guardavía (1877)
- Barca en la playa (1890).
Part of his work can be seen in the Basilica de la asunción in the town of Cieza, and in the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts “San Pio V”. The greatest collection of this painter's work is to be seen in the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, with over one hundred paintings and six hundred drawings.
Selected paintings
The Lineman
Seated Feminine Figure
Portrait of Doña Teresa Martínez
Portrait of Don Manuel Comas
The Arbor
My Street in Godella
The Cross at the Mill in Godella.jpg)
The Daughters of El Cid
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