Montserrat Gudiol | La prima donna-membro della Reale Accademia Catalana di Belle Arti

Montserrat Gudiol i Corominas (1933-2015) è stata una pittrice Spagnola di origine catalana, celebre per essere stata una figura pionieristica nell'arte contemporanea della sua regione.

Alcuni dei suoi lavori sembrano ricordare Hieronymus Bosch con un occhiolino allo studio di suo padre, e altri sembrano riflettere le opere di famosi pittori del suo tempo come Picasso.

Figlia dell'architetto e storico dell'arte Josep Gudiol i Ricart, Montserrat si forma inizialmente come autodidatta all'interno dello studio di famiglia specializzato nel restauro di dipinti medievali.

Paul Éluard / Pablo Picasso | Dove of Peace, 1951

Dove (French: La Colombe) is a 1949 lithograph on paper created by Pablo Picasso in 1949 in an edition of 50+5.

The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace.

The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also became an iconographic image of the period, known as "The dove of peace".

An example is housed in the collection of the Tate Gallery and MOMA.

Since then, it has been considered a masterpiece.

Picasso | The Dove / La Colombe, 1949 | MOMA

Salvador Dalí | Self-portraits

Salvador Dalí started to paint self-portraits very early on.

In the ones made during adolescence, Dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions, but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them (or to provoke them) and on the public in general.

Like other adolescents, he sought through his appearance an affirmation of his own personality, wearing long hair and sideburns, and dressing extravagantly.

Salvador Dali, 1941 | Soft self-portrait with grilled Bacon

Ignacio Larra, 1954 | Symbolist painter

Ignacio Larra is a renowned Spanish figurative and mural painter born in Caracas, Venezuela.

At age 14, he relocated to Spain with his parents, where his father -the celebrated landscape artist Juan Larramendi- became his primary artistic mentor.

Larra's distinct style, known for its deep symbolism, intimacy and meticulous attention to fine detail, was heavily shaped by his time spent in Amsterdam studying classical Flemish and Dutch painting.

His father recognized his early talent for painting figures and portraits, guiding his transition into fine oil painting.

Marcos Rodrigo, 1957 | Expressionist Figurative painter

Marcos Rodrigo is a contemporary Spanish-born figurative expressionist painter whose work prominently features the female form, sensuality and portraiture.

Born in Old Castile, Spain, his family moved to the Lot region of France when he was four years old.

Heavily influenced by his father, who was a sculptor and craftsman, Rodrigo developed an early appreciation for physical materials, texture, and structural form.

Mònica Castanys, 1973 | Impressionist Figurative painter

Spanish painter Mònica Castanys was born in Barcelona.

She graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona in 1993.

In 1990, she assisted a course at the Lorenzo di Medici School in Florence, Italy.

She received several national prizes for young artists.

Mònica’s art has been exhibited at numerous personal and group exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

Salvador Dalì | The hallucinogenic toreador, 1969-1970

The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Spanish: El Torero Alucinógeno) is a 1969–1970 multi-leveled oil painting by Salvador Dalí which employs the canons of his particular interpretation of surrealist thought.

It is currently being exhibited at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In The Hallucinogenic Toreador Dalí transmits his wife's dislike for bullfighting by combining symbolism, optical illusions, and estranging yet familiar motifs.

Dalí used his paranoiac-critical method to create his own visual language within the painting, and combined versatile images as an instructive example of his artistic ability and vision.

Salvador Fuster Vercher, 1966 | Figurative painter

Salvador Fuster Vercher born in Alcoy, is the son of the painter Rafael Fuster he inherited his great mastery of drawing and color.

Salvador Fuster is a painter who, like his progenitor, dominates all painting techniques, and is considered one of the best portrait painters in the current art scene.

His painting is present in great part of the best collections of painting of Europe and America and even the distant Australia counts on portraits and work of this great artist.