Post-211 -by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
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Modest Urgell was a painter and Playwright. He was born in Barcelona (1839-1919). He studied art at the Llotja art school, with the leading realist painter of Catalonia, Ramon Martí Alsina. He was a painter of Romanticism and Realism, both, most important art trends of 19th C. He then worked in Modernism.
Urgell landscapes are inspired by nearly 50 different geographical places, mostly in Spain and France. He produced a large body of work, most of which consisted of landscapes and similar themes that ‘depict seascapes, village streets, hermitages, cemeteries, real places, desolate landscapes, ruins, twilight, stillness and isolated places, fields, villages and beaches’. He sketched en plein air.
In many works he engaged himself to a constant theme but with versions and variations. He was often called a painter of ‘more of the same’. He rarely used the sunny light, as considered that as the ‘prose of the landscape’. In the later phase, he experimented with low horizons to depict the skies, but was not very successful.
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