An Artist by Aurelia Navarro Moreno, 1906. Recorded on May 21, 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

An Artist by Aurelia Navarro Moreno, 1906. Recorded on May 21, 2025

American Friends helps share the Prado's collection with a weekly session in English on the museum's social media. All of our projects are made possible thanks to contributor support. Join and help us do more. https://www.afpradomuseum.org Aurelia Navarro (Pulianas, 1882 - Córdoba, 1968) Aurelia Navarro was a significant painter of the early 20th century, during which she developed a remarkable public career. Coming from a well-off background, she began studying art as a teenager in Granada, first under José Larrocha (1850–1933), who trained her in drawing and landscape painting. More influential, however, was Tomás Muñoz Lucena (1860–1943), from whom she learned a love of color and light effects, and who sparked her interest in genre scenes that marked the beginning of her work. Nevertheless, Navarro soon developed her own iconographic universe—intimate, and exclusively populated by women. In the 1904 exhibition, Navarro received an honorable mention for 'Peaceful Dream' from a jury presided over by Sorolla. Encouraged by this first success, she participated again in the 1906 National Exhibition with four works, one of which was awarded a third medal and earned her a prize of one thousand pesetas. Santos Moreno, an art historian doctorate, identifies the portrait held in the Prado Museum as the one awarded at that time, based on the recollections of the descendants who had preserved it. It depicts a female painter in the act of reflecting on her work, executed with fluid brushwork yet firm drawing. Navarro softens and breaks the dominance of greens with gentle blues in the background and the dress, guided by a bold and original sense of color. The focus of the portrait is the serious and intellectual expression of the sitter. Positioned in strict profile, she seems to reference the traditions of early Italian Renaissance portraiture.