Spanish Painting

By A. de Beruete y Moret

Spanish Painting is a collection of the works of Aureliano de Beruete, a Spanish landscape painter, art critic, and social activist. He was most inclined to art and had his first lessons at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he studied with Carlos de Haes. His ample income allowed him to devote himself entirely to painting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338059383

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A. de Beruete y Moret

Spanish Painting

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4066338059383

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LIST OF ARTISTS WHOSE WORKS ARE REPRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME

SPANISH PAINTING—WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EXHIBITION AT BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON NOVEMBER, 1920 TO JANUARY, 1921

LIST OF ARTISTS WHOSE WORKS

ARE REPRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME

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SPANISH PAINTING—WITH SPECIAL

REFERENCE TO THE EXHIBITION AT

BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON

NOVEMBER, 1920 TO JANUARY, 1921

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T HE exhibition of Spanish Painting held in London in the galleries of the Royal Academy from November to January last, excited a lively interest in the English public and inspired numerous articles on the subject in English journals and reviews. If all of these were not in accord on certain issues and critics adopted various points of view, it may still be said that the crowds of visitors which it attracted and the manifold expressions of opinion it evoked supply the clearest evidence that the exhibition aroused the curiosity of the English public, and consequently may be regarded as a triumph for Spanish art and a success for its promoters.

The reasons underlying the interest which Spanish art awakens to-day in enlightened circles (this is the second exhibition of the kind which Spain has of late witnessed beyond her borders, recalling that of Paris in 1920) are worthy of reflection and may be said to have inspired the Royal Academy’s exhibition.

Spain—her life, history, customs, art—is often regarded subjectively as though enveloped in a haze, or through the medium of legend, which, however accommodating it may be to literary expression, is by no means conformable to the facts of history or present realities. Viewed in this picturesque manner and because of the isolation in which the country remained for generations, and perhaps still remains, it has attracted the attention of writers and poets, and even scientists and philosophers, unfamiliar with their theme and dubious in their assertions. Doubtless the typical, the true native spirit has not been misunderstood by the outside world. Thus in the case of Cervantes and Velázquez, their names are household words in every land. But the kind of knowledge to which we allude is not usually imparted by such lofty spirits, who speak to humanity from the heights, without distinctions of race or frontier. That which they accomplish is only a part of the national achievement. It is the medium in which it is fashioned, the environment in which it comes into being, its artistic matrix, which determines the precise type of racial endeavour. To its