Alberto Pla y Rubio

Alberto Pla y Rubio

Rubio's 1920 oil painting Girl in a Field
Born 1867
Castelló de la Ribera, Valencia, Spain
Died 1937
Barcelona, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Education Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Known for Painting
Notable work
  • ¡A la guerra! (1895)
  • Girl in a Field (1920)
Movement Impressionism
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pla and the second or maternal family name is Rubio.

Alberto Pla y Rubio (Castelló de la Ribera, Valencia, 1867 - Barcelona, 1937) was a Spanish painter interested in social issues.[1] He was a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Cadiz and the La Lonja school in Barcelona. He studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans,[1] and in the workshop of Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench.[2] He won a first-class medal in the National Exhibition of 1895 with a canvas entitled ¡A la guerra! ("Off to War!")[1] and won a second-class medal at the Paris Salon of 1899.[3]

Rubio focused on social themes in a realistic style. He was strongly influenced by Joaquin Sorolla and impressionist brushwork, especially in the use of light in his oil paintings.[4]

His prize-winning painting, ¡A la guerra!, belongs to the Prado, the national art museum of Spain, and currently hangs in the town hall of Alcalá de Henares.[1]

In 2006, his painting The Orange Harvest sold at Christie's for US$16,800.[5]

Gallery

  1. ^ Gutiérrez Buron, Jesús (1980). Exposiciones Nacionales de pintura en la España del siglo XIX, vol. II (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 188. 

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pla y Rubio, Alberto". Museo del Prado (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Alberto Pla Y Rubio". askART. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1900. p. 284. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Maestros del realismo en España: Alberto Pla y Rubio". trianarts (in Spanish). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Alberto Pla Rubio (Spanish, 1867 - 1937)". MutualArt. Retrieved 4 September 2016.

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