We
were at the Bellas Artes San Pio V (Fine Arts Museum). There we
assisted to the new temporary exhibition about Clotilde de Sorolla,
the wife of the famous Valenican painter Joaquín Sorolla
(1863-1923). About 20 paintings and 25 drawings that deal with the
wife and muse that constantly accompanied the artist, from his youth
until the painter's death. Their romance started around 1879, in
their youth. The visitor, through light paintings, enables to open
the door to the privacy of the family of Joaquin, a painter of light
in Valencia and expressiveness of the look of his woman, laughing,
playing and accompanying the birth of their children.
Fishermen Royal Bridge in Valencia
Another set
of pictures show us portraits reading in the garden of his home in
Madrid. The last section shows Clotilde assisting to the creation of
the last art-pieces and having vaccation and leisure around Spain.
Finally, Clotilda takes care of her husband at the last days and the
public impact of his death.
Clotilde de Sorolla in Blue dress
Alongside this exhibition visit
please the pavilion dedicated to Mariano Benlliure in a small chapel
next to the Jardines de Viveros (Royal Gardens)
where one can admire the artistic talent of a contemporary of
Sorolla, the Sculptor Mariano Benlliure. Between different sketches
turning around nature and dame portraits you will admire the splendid
mausoleum of the great Toreador of the beginning of XXth
Century, Joselito. This splendid bronze piece represents the
devotional line that accompanied crying his coffin in his last
paseíllo (walking ceremony before the corrida)till the
cemetery. José Gómez Ortega was a bullfighter of gipsy background
who reached the summit of this art, according to his critics. But
around 1920, he failed in Madrid, and agreed to fight a corrida
in Talavera, with his brother in law Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. That was
his very last one. The fifth bull' sharp horns pierced his stomach
and he died. The famous sculptor of this time, Benlliure composed the
sculpture in 1926, and it was exposed to the public at the Palace of
Fine Arts, settling permanently in the Cemetery San Fernando of
Seville.
Sketch for the Mausoleum of Joselito
Mausoleum of Joselito in San Fernando
Cemetery of Seville
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