{"id":20364,"date":"2021-08-28T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/2021\/08\/28\/inauguration-of-cruanas-december-16th-2011\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T20:41:06","slug":"inauguration-of-cruanas-december-16th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/2021\/08\/28\/inauguration-of-cruanas-december-16th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of Crua\u00f1as (December 16th 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>Christmas 2011!<\/strong> As always during this season, it gives us great pleasure to have with us a guest of special renown. On this occasion we are together with Josep Crua\u00f1as<\/strong>, and precisely with his collection of “The colour of dreams”<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a>. It is said that he is a “self controlled impressionist”. Crua\u00f1as doesn\u2019t deny that, but \u2014avoiding any excessive labeling\u2014 he prefers to clarify that he is a follower of the figurative tradition. <\/strong><\/div>\n

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<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Ignasi Cabanas<\/strong> welcomes the extraordinary Christmas’ exhibition: \u00abChristmas is a special time for us, and we would like to offer to you something special as well. Josep is here for the second time in these circumstances. This fact alone is quite symptomatic! Crua\u00f1a’s work fills the Gallery: downstairs we see his watercolors; on the ground floor you’ll find the oil paintings. We are exhibiting here his entire range as a painter!\u00bb.<\/div>\n
<\/a>\"\"<\/a> <\/strong> <\/strong>As usual, Mr. Josep M\u00aa Cadena<\/strong>, always tramples over \u201cwell known ground\u201d: \u00abWe will not go into details, because we would never end! Josep Crua\u00f1as has devoted many years oil and watercolor painting. Watercolor was a bit more like his beloved, though somewhat secret, daughter! Oil and watercolor are two complementary techniques, though different. Oil requires some consideration at the beginning, a previous little composition\u2026 However, watercolor is the present instant, the feeling of the moment, but this feeling must still be valid later on. The watercolor has to be well mulled over before!\u00bb.<\/div>\n
<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> After the acknowledgments, the painter<\/strong> emphasized a theme previously mentioned by Mr. Cadena: \u00abThe first vision of the cities! When you go to a city, you see first the “anecdote\u201d, you are rather like a tourist. But when you go back there again, you realize that under that “skin” there is a world. This world is what the painter, based on experience, discovers. It is not surprising that we paint so many times the same topic: it has much to say and every time it tells me different things!\u00bb.<\/div>\n
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<\/a>\"\"<\/a> <\/strong>Questions: <\/strong>\u2014Why Amsterdam? \u2014Frederic Lloveras and Sarsanedas took me there. This city has channels, there are old ships, quite pictorial elements\u2026 It has a taste of civilized city. And always in winter, when trees have no leaves and do not hide the landscape. \u2014The urban landscape is a simple objective vision lacking in spirit? \u2014No! The landscape is the pretext, in which there is no landscape, but the painter. It is the excuse to transmit on a canvas whatever you are carrying deep within.<\/p>\n

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Christmas 2011! As always during this season, it gives us great pleasure to have with us a guest of special renown. On this occasion we are together with Josep Crua\u00f1as, and precisely with his collection of “The colour of dreams”. It is said that he is a “self controlled impressionist”. Crua\u00f1as doesn\u2019t deny that, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inaugurations-at-the-rusinol-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.salarusinyol.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}