The Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra offers you this week a new guided tour of a particular work from the exhibition “INFLUENCERS in Art. From Van Goyen to Pop Art“, which you can discover from home.
Today, the Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra invites you to discover “Landscape with Town and River”, 1930, by the famous Catalan painter Eliseu Meifrèn, which is part of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.
Eliseu Meifrèn, a Catalan painter born in 1859 and who died in 1940 in Barcelona, did not enter in the avant-garde dynamic until late, although he is considered one of the first artists who established the Impressionist movement in Catalonia. Initially devoted to a career as a doctor, like his father, Meifrèn soon decided to devote himself exclusively to painting. He then began his training at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, where he learned the representation of the academic Romantic landscape. He then completed his training in Paris, where he discovered the avant-garde and its artists.
Recognized as a reference in landscape and seascapes, Eliseu Meifrèn remained faithful to realism and academic naturalism for a long time. Finally influenced by impressionism, the artist abandons classical conventionalism and begins to work on chromatics and the different aspects of light.
His style and technique, which the visitor discovers with amazement, are based on the decomposition of the chromatic nuances of the sky and water, underlined by the movement of the wind playing with the vegetation. The artist thus definitively detaches himself from romanticism, concentrating more than on visual and chromatic impression and abandoning the sentimentalism proper to the romantic movement.
