Jordi Curos Art

1970s Spanish Fauvist Female Portrait Watercolor, Catalan Modern Art Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: Young Woman Date: 1977 Medium: Watercolor on paper Artwork dimens...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

Colorful Fauvist Woman with Guitar Mixed Media Painting, Spanish Figurative Portrait Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) Title: Woman with Guitar Date: c.1985 Medium: Mixed medi...

Spanish Fauvist Figurative Painting of a Woman with Fan, Mediterranean Interior Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Year: 1979 Medium: Mixed media on canvas board Dimensions: 38...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Acrylic on canvas on cardboard. Work measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...

Woman with Guitar in Vibrant Fauvist Interior, Spanish Figurative Mixed Media Artwork Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) Title: Woman with Guitar Date: c.1985 Medium: Mixed med...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

Barcelona Flower Market Las Ramblas Oil Painting Mediterranean Street Scene TECHNICAL DETAILS Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2007, Spain) Title: Bulev...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 35x27 cm. Frame 40x32 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spani...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Gir...

Fauvist Female Nude in Mediterranean Interior, Spanish Modernist Figurative Painting Description Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (Spanish, 1930–2017) Title: Seated Woman in an Interior ...

Fauvist Floral Still Life Original Oil Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: Floral Still Life Date: Circa 1980 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 × 27 cm / 13.7...

Original Fauvist Male Portrait Oil Painting, Catalan Modernist Figurative Art Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: Portrait of a Man Date: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on canvas...

Spanish Fauvist Self-Portrait, Modern Catalan Figurative Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: Self-Portrait Date: 1979 Medium: Mixed media on canvas board Dimensi...

Fauvist Self-Portrait in the Artist’s Studio, Spanish Modern Figurative Painting Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Self-Portrait in the Artist’s Studio Circa 1980 Oil on cardboard 55 ...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

Spanish Figurative Nude Artist Studio Interior Modern Oil Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: *The Painter and the Model* Date: c. 1978 Medium: Oil on canvas Dim...

1979 Spanish Modern Fauvist Portrait of a Seated Woman, Barcelona School TECHNICAL DETAILS Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Date: 1979 Medium: Mixed media on canvas board Di...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 41x33 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

Jordi Curos - View of Barcelona - Oil on cardboard Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He trained at the O...

Spanish Modernist Portrait of a Woman with Guitar, Catalan Fauvist Interior Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (Spanish, 1930–2017) Title: Woman with Guitar Date: 1980 Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 46 × 38 cm (18.11 × 14.96 in) Framed dimensions: 64 × 56 cm (25.20 × 22.05 in) Signature: Signed and dated lower right Period: Late 20th century Style: Spanish Modernism, Catalan Modern Art, Figurative Expressionism, Fauvist influence Subject: Female portrait, woman, guitar, interior, flowers Condition: Good vintage condition, consistent with age Frame: Framed Description A striking 1980 oil painting by Catalan artist Jordi Curós Ventura, depicting a seated young woman in an intimate interior accompanied by a Spanish guitar and a vase of red flowers. The composition is constructed through large areas of warm, expressive color. The intense coral-orange background establishes an immediate chromatic presence, while the woman's pale yellow jacket, dark violet trousers, blue-green vase and orange guitar create a carefully balanced yet deliberately unconventional palette. Curós simplifies forms without abandoning figuration, giving the painting the visual immediacy associated with postwar European modernism and the coloristic freedom of Fauvism. The sitter occupies the center of the composition, frontal and still, her crossed legs and folded hands producing an almost sculptural stability. Behind her, the guitar introduces an unmistakably Mediterranean and Spanish note, while the vase and small table transform the portrait into an intimate domestic scene. Rather than functioning merely as accessories, these objects divide the composition into chromatic zones and establish a rhythmic dialogue between figure, still life and interior. The painting is signed and dated lower right and retains its substantial period frame. Biography Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, 1930–2017) was an important Catalan painter associated with the renewal of Spanish figurative painting during the second half of the 20th century. He trained at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis of Olot, a city with one of Catalonia's most distinguished landscape-painting traditions. His first solo exhibition took place at Galerías Jardín in Barcelona in 1950, and from 1951 he participated in the influential Salons d'Octubre, which played an important role in introducing new artistic languages into postwar Catalan art. Curós exhibited at prominent Barcelona galleries including Sala Caralt, Galerías Layetanas, Galería Syra and Sala Vayreda. His Madrid debut took place at Galerías Biosca in 1953, and he also exhibited internationally. In 1952 he was selected by the influential Catalan intellectual and critic Eugeni d'Ors for the X Salón de los Once. The following year he participated in the II Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte in Havana. Curós received scholarships that enabled him to work in Paris, first from the Institut Français de Barcelona in 1954 and later from Barcelona City Council in 1958. Contact with the Parisian art world contributed to the development of the increasingly experimental language that characterized his work during the following years. Between approximately 1958 and 1963, his painting moved toward abstraction and Informalism, with strongly textured surfaces, arabesques and enamel-like areas of color. He later returned to figuration, developing a highly personal style characterized by luminous color, simplified forms and an interest in capturing the immediacy of everyday life. From 1965 to 1989 he exhibited repeatedly at Barcelona's historic Sala Parés, one of Spain's oldest and most prestigious commercial galleries. His career also included participation in major exhibitions of contemporary Spanish art in Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Lisbon, Porto and Brussels. The Museu d'Art Modern de Barcelona acquired one of his paintings as early as 1953. Today Curós is regarded as a distinctive representative of postwar Catalan painting, occupying a fascinating territory between Mediterranean figuration, Expressionism, abstraction and the legacy of French modernism. Artistic Inspiration and Context This painting belongs to Curós's mature return to figuration after his experiments with abstraction and Informalism. Its saturated palette and simplified construction recall the great colorist tradition of 20th-century European painting, particularly Henri Matisse, Kees van Dongen and Raoul Dufy, while its psychological directness and deliberately economical drawing place it firmly within Spanish and Catalan postwar figurative art. There is also a subtle connection with the intimate interiors of the School of Paris: a solitary figure, ordinary domestic objects and an apparently simple setting transformed through color into something psychologically charged. The guitar is especially significant. Beyond its decorative function, it introduces a distinctly Spanish cultural symbol into an otherwise cosmopolitan modernist composition. Together with the flowers and intensely colored background, it gives the work a warm Mediterranean character highly characteristic of Curós's mature figurative vocabulary. The result is both portrait and interior, combining Spanish identity, Catalan postwar modernism and the chromatic freedom inherited from Fauvism. Jordi Curós Ventura Spanish Modern Art Catalan Modern Art Catalan Painting Spanish Figurative Painting Spanish Expressionism Fauvist Painting Fauvism Postwar European Art Postwar Spanish Art Mid-Century European Art 20th Century Spanish Painting Modernist Portrait Female Portrait Woman Portrait Painting Woman with Guitar Guitar Painting Spanish Guitar Art...

Jordi Curos - View of Barcelona - Oil on cardboard Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He trained at the O...

Fauvist Seated Woman with Fan Spanish Figurative Modern Mediterranean Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2007) Title: Woman with Fan Date: 1979 Medium: Mixed media on canvas...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Acrylic on canvas on cardboard. Work measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...