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Title: Joaquin Sorolla This book is out of print. Product Dimensions: 11 x 10 x 1.4 inches Joaquin Sorolla was one of the greatest natural painters. His style marked by luminous coloring and vigorous brushwork earned him considerable reputation throughout Europe and America. Sorolla has been recognized by Spain as a National Treasure along with Velasquez and El Greco. This monograph, a reprint of the 2005 book, written by the artist's great granddaughter, provides an overview of his work including an illustrated chronology. Price: $129.00 plus $15 for shipping, handling, and insurance. |
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Loosely speaking, Sorolla's way of painting is similar to that of Sargent, but his color is better designed, even for black color, and he uses brighter and stronger color and uses less middle tone to intensify the music effect of value/color contrast, while his edge and stroke are often not as much modeled. However, his use of stroke is more economic and it is said that he often finished a painting in an astonish speed. I guess that his art corresponds to the greatest human art activity in future: not mechanically duplicates nature image as camera can do, but powerfully reveals and emphasizes its beauty in a way as simple as possible.
I believe books about painters should have 1) least text and most pictures, and 2) large picture size (and better with 'close-ups'). In this regard, this book is above average. Compared to many Sargent books, and the first edition, 2005, this book has a higher pictures to text ratio. The quality of the print and paper stock is also better in my opinion.
Monographs of painters with more texts and fewer pictures seem to show that the main role of the books is the author/historian, rather than the artist. You can rarely find a painting book on a deceased painter without a lot of text, while for a living artist the opposite is often true, because the artist himself often considers the text as redundant.
