Helen Stratford

Laureano Barrau began his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where he studied under Antonio Caba. Soon after he travels to Madrid to study the great masters of the Museo del Prado. A related site: Tony Parker mentions similar findings. In 1884 the City Council granted the pension Fortuny for further studies in Paris. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts, with Jean-Leon Gerome as guardian. Two years later you get another pension, this time to travel to Rome and study the Italian masters. Assiduously attended national and international exhibitions, winning several awards.

The National Fine Arts was awarded third and second medal (1892 and 1904 respectively), and second medal in the Barcelona and Brussels Universal, 1888. Numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Rome. Since 1887, exhibited at the Sala Pares Barcelona, one of the most important Spanish galleries of the moment and the most outstanding in Catalonia. In 1911 he moved his Ibiza residence, where he remained until his death in 1950. In 1929 was appointed Society of the Paris Salons.

Work is preserved Laureano Barrau in the Prado Museum, the Getty Museum in California, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid and Barcelona, his home-museum in the Santa Eulalia, Ibiza and in various museums in Paris, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as important private collections nationally and internationally. Barrau’s work is characterized, in general, by a neo-classical evolution from the severity of their training into a style marked by the luminosity and transparency. Thus, in this work we see a vivid chromaticism, a loose brush and his great mastery of light. Through a simple but innovative composition, asymmetrical and of great depth, Barrau us to a protagonist. Their presence is by contrasting color, to highlight their clothes against the backdrop of dark tones. Barrau in this painting combines two of his top concerns: the translation of the atmosphere natural, faithfully reproducing light and color, and penchant for realistically reflect the small details of the everyday landscape.

In 1911, he began to travel to several Spanish cities. He began his collaborations in Spain and in the magazine Revista de Occidente and, above all, in the newspaper The Sun in 1913, he published his first book Garba, who dedicated to Antonio Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Ruben Dario. On his articles in The Sun, Azorin sends an encouraging card. “You have arrived sumun, simplicity.” “Fraud In 1917 Alberto Jimenez-Moreno Villa tells me said: Come to the Student Residence “and remains there until November 29, 1937 when the civil war ended with it. In 1921, he left the residence for one year, by adopting a competition to the body of Archives, Libraries and Museums, is aimed at Gijon, Jovellanos Institute’s library. Back to Madrid where he accepted the leadership of the National Palace File.

In 1924 part of the jury of the National Literature Prize, was awarded Rafael Alberti with his book, Marinero en tierra. Coffee chat frequents the “Regina”, which includes, among others Luis Bello. Moreno Villa said in his book Life in clear, autobiography published in Mexico, that poets in recent times, had appeared in pairs, Machado and Juan Ramon Salinas and Guillen, Lorca and Alberti, Prados and Altolaguirre, but that he, also, Leon Felipe, had come alone. In house Jimenez Fraud, director of the Residencia de Estudiantes, known Moreno Villa Florence, the young New Yorker who falls to the point of thinking about marriage. On February 16, 1927, the day of his birthday, leaves with his American girlfriend in New York with the intention of marriage.