Pablo González Tornel closes the Ciclo Sorolla of the UV at La Nau
Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia Pablo González Tornel will close the conference series dedicated to Sorolla held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary since the death of the Valencian painter on Friday, 24 May at La Nau Cultural Centre of the Universitat de València. The Commissioner of the Joaquín Sorolla Year and curator of the centenary will close a programme of lectures with which the Universitat de València has shown a part of Sorolla's biography far removed from the costumbrist perspective of the Valencian beach.
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The lecture presented by Pablo González Tornel‘Sorolla Year. Perspectives and contexts’will take place in the Aula Magna of La Nau at 7:00pm, free of charge until full capacity is reached. The series of conferences that the UV has dedicated to Sorolla began in April 2023 with‘Sorolla and his time’, by formerVice-Principal of Culture and Professor of Art History at the UVRafael Gil Salinas.
For a little over a year, a monthly conference has been held in which different researchershave given a broader view of Sorolla. The audience has been able to learn how he began his academic studies, the artists who were successful in the Valencian context at the time, his relationship with his teachers and friends, and the importance of women, eroticism and the sea in Sorolla's painting.
The Ciclo Sorolla, organised bythe Visual Arts Club of the UV, has tried to bring to light the work of the Valencian artist as the starting point of modern painting in Spain, thus, providing an image of a cheerful and bright country, closely contrasted with the idea of other artists such asIgnacio Zuloaga.
The Visual Arts Club of the UV, dependent on the Office of theVice-Principal for Culture and Society, aims to address cultural and artistic manifestations related to still images, such as photography, illustration, drawing, painting or street art.