By Gabriel Casarrubios
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Spanish Beach Scene with Fishermen Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
Artist: Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (Spanish, born 1953)
Title: Spanish Beach Scene
Date: Circa 2000
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 19 × 33 cm (7.48 × 12.99 in)
Frame: Unframed
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition: Excellent
Style: Post-Impressionist
Subject: Beach scene, fishermen and coastal life
Description
A lively Spanish beach scene by Gabriel Casarrubios Martín, painted in oil on panel circa 2000. Beneath a simple shaded structure, a group of figures gathers on the sand, their colourful clothing set against the deep blue horizon and the luminous Mediterranean sky.
Executed with swift, confident brushwork and a particularly attractive handling of sunlight, the work gives a small format real presence. The loosely suggested figures, beach shadows and intensely observed atmosphere evoke the unhurried rhythm of coastal Spain.
Unframed and in excellent condition.
Artistic Inspiration
Casarrubios’s treatment of Mediterranean light and everyday beach life recalls the luminist tradition of Joaquín Sorolla, while his direct, richly textured brushwork also connects with Joaquín Mir and Spanish post-Impressionist landscape painting. This is an especially appealing example of contemporary Spanish painting rooted in that tradition.
Artist Biography
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín was trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, including studies at the Facultad de San Fernando and the Universidad Complutense. A member of the Canati group since its formation in 1991, he has exhibited widely in Spain and internationally. His work ranges from colourful impressionistic landscapes to geometric figurative compositions, always distinguished by an expressive use of colour and light.
European art with a Mediterranean soul.
Spanish beach painting; Mediterranean coastal art; fisherman painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings