To pay for his studies, the young man began to paint for sale. Teachers saw talent in Sorolla, but one talent was not enough: painting at all times was an expensive pleasure, and it was increasingly difficult for Picacheres to cover his nephew's expenses. Locksmith Jose Picuares from childhood tried to attach Joaquin to his work, but when he saw that the boy had the ability to draw, he did not put pressure on him.Īt age 14, Joaquin began to attend drawing lessons at the School of Crafts, and at 15, receiving a box of colors from his uncle as a gift, he entered the School of Fine Arts of Valencia. Children were taken up by aunt and her husband. When Joaquin was two years old, and his sister Conchita was only one, their parents died of cholera. The future painter was born in Valencia in the family of a merchant. In the history of national and world painting the impressionist Sorolla has its own special place.

He is not among the great ones as Velazquez and Goyato scandalous glory Picasso and Dali he is too far away. Instead, Sorolla painted his family, fishermen, children, and created for the museum in the United States huge panels depicting scenes of village life in the provinces of Spain.

He was not destined to become a court painter, to perpetuate the next monarch and paint the famous temples. Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida ( Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida) was born at a time when the golden age of Spanish painting, like the Spanish crown, was already in the past.

JOAQUÍN SOROLLA by Roger Diederen