Backlight with flowers. Joan Raset postimpresionist female figure reading
By Joan Raset
Located in Segovia, ES
"Backlight with flowers" (Contraluz con flores), oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset.
Dimension with frame 102 cm H x 121 cm W x 4 cm D
Dimension without frame 73 cm H x 91 cm W x 2 cm D
Joan Raset gets a very relax atmosphere with this elegant figure against a faint backlight.
The girl reading, in her concentration, show us an intimate moment. Moment of feminity, naturalness, sensuality, beauty with the help of a coloristic palette in earths, sepia, carmines, and violets colors.
Bio: Spanish artist Joan Raset was born in 1938 in Barcelona. Raset was trained, and worked in technical architecture, but abandoned it in the 1970s for fine art. He started attending the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc and later the Cercle Real in Barcelona. He was initially attracted to abstract painting, and also created signs for discothèques and nightclubs in trendy cities along the costa. But he also spent time on pastel portraiture and more figurative work, to which he attributes his eventual artistic development.
Already his pastel work was distinctive and it resulted in a publishing contract with Editorial Parragón. El Desnudo femenino al Pastel (The female Nude in Pastel...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Joan Raset Art
MaterialsCotton Canvas, Oil