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Joan Marti Aragones (1936-2009) | Figurative / Genre painter

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Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Spanish painter🎨 Joan Marti Aragonés is one of the most important artists in Spain. Born in Barcelona, he began his artistic studies in 1950.
His artistic talent was developed and perfected first at the Academia de Valls and later at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi in Barcelona. He studied with such renowned teachers as Nolase Valols, E. Santasusagna and Garcia Morales.
He held his first exhibition at Galeria Atenea in 1959 in Barcelona. He is one of the official portrait artists of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.


At the request of the opera singer, Placido Domingo, he painted scenes from Verdi's opera Otello starring Domingo and soprano Katia Ricciarelli performing at La Scala in Milan.
These accomplishments are the result of a career steeped in devotion to technique and to a unified aesthetic vision.
He is a master of all mediums: oils, pastels (which he helped to revive in Spain), charcoal, pen and ink; his skills at rendering the human figure are second to none. In addition to the human figure as subject matter, he loves genre paintings of his native Catalonia, landscapes and seascapes, character studies and still-lifes.
He is a studio painter. His paintings are in many private collections throughout Europe, the United States and Japan.


Internationally, his work has been shown in Paris, Luxembourg, Caracas, Washington, New York, Brussels, Miami, Quebec, California and of course widely throughout Spain.

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter















Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter













Joan Marti Aragonés della 36a generazione di Barcellona, ​​ha iniziato la sua formazione artistica all'età di 13 anni presso l'Accademia del pittore Nolasc Valls e l'ha ampliata alla Scuola di Belle Arti di Sant Jordi e poi ha fatto altri studi in Italia e Parigi grazie a numerose borse di studio.


Del suo dipinto, sempre in stile figurativo, diceva Josep Pla che era pieno di un "realismo pratico, quasi magico, estremamente intelligente e piacevole".
Conosciuto soprattutto come ritrattista di personaggi famosi della vita pubblica e culturale spagnola - da Jordi Pujol a Xavier Cugat attraverso Frederic Mompou o il suo ammirato Kubala -, lo scrittore Francisco Candel una volta descrisse la sua palette come "ricca di temi e toni, e la sua policromia ben mantenuta, senza rigidità ma con precisione".

Nel corso della sua carriera, Joan Martí è stato assegnato il Primo Premio🎨 Internazionale di Tossa de Mar, il Primo Premio del Centenario de “La Vanguardia”, il Van Gogh disegno, Internazionale Palamós, Cala Canyellas, Calella de Mar, Hospitalet, la Festa di Tura, Cittadina spagnola, Cornella, Arenys de Munt, Mataró e Manresa, tra molti altri.

Joan Marti 1936-2009 | Spanish Figurative painter