"The Young Musician" Oil on Canvas Painting

Miquel Torner de Semir (1938) Catalan painter attracted by the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance art. His influences and tastes also include Romanesque and Gothic. He trained artistically at the School of Fine Arts in Sant Jordi and at the San Fernando School in Madrid. Miquel Torner was a disciple of the muralist and engraver Ricard Marlet, with him he learned the discipline of drawing and learned about movements such as Modernism and Catalan New Centism. His first individual exhibition was in 1968 in Terrassa, then he exhibited in other Spanish cities, in Paris and in Europe. The painter Miquel Torner became one of the best-known representatives of Mediterranean painting. In his works he mixed the classic with the new, an example was reproducing the meninas with his own style and with such colorful tones as pink and violet.