By Ulpiano Carrasco
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Expressive Castilian Landscape Oil Painting with Olive Trees and Impasto
Artist: Ulpiano Carrasco
Title: Verano en Castillejo
Year: 1998
Technique: Oil on canvas
Artwork dimensions: 54 × 65 cm / 21.26 × 25.59 in
Framed dimensions: 78 × 89 cm / 30.71 × 35.04 in
Signature: Signed and dated on the reverse
Inscription: Titled “Verano en Castillejo” on the reverse
Framing: Framed
Condition: Good overall condition, with rich original impasto and visible pictorial texture
Description
A vibrant expressive landscape by Spanish artist Ulpiano Carrasco, titled Verano en Castillejo and dated 1998 on the reverse.
This oil on canvas represents a powerful Castilian landscape, built through dense impasto, energetic brushwork and a luminous palette of greens, yellows, blues, whites and earthy reds. The composition captures an open rural panorama with olive trees, rolling cultivated fields and distant hills, transforming the Spanish countryside into an intense chromatic experience.
Carrasco does not approach landscape as simple topography. His painting turns nature into matter, rhythm and emotion. The fields appear almost sculpted with paint, while the olive trees emerge as dark, expressive forms against the vibrating surface of the land. The result is a landscape full of movement, heat and Mediterranean-Castilian atmosphere.
The work is especially attractive for collectors of Spanish contemporary landscape painting, expressive impasto painting, Mediterranean landscapes, olive tree paintings...
Category
1990s Expressionist Europe - Art
