Spanish Painting
One of the great European painting traditions that always sailed between two very turbulent waters.
Spanish painting always had a binomial that became the central axis of its evolution. The relationship between reality and mysticism was that practically inevitable filter that marked every step in the pictorial development of the Iberian Peninsula.
It would be more accurate to point out that the history of Spanish painting is a constant mystic-realist tension with variations, different interpretations, or deviations. Precisely those nuances were the ones that distinguished the great creators, who at the same time were the engines of that development beyond the binomial; in the same way, the masters of Spanish painting form the basis for the thematic and technical classification of a complex picture in its conception and personality.
Because in Spain, there were big periods of openness and closedness throughout the centuries, with periods of great absorption of influences and others of original growth. It is in these comings and goings to Europe that the most elementary notions of man and art: body, matter, death, spirit, or soul, emerged and were worked on.
One of the first outstanding works of Spanish painting is Martyrdom of St. George, painted by Bernat Martorell. He was…
