This is the “Sorolla Orígenes” exhibition in Valencia: schedules, prices

We are in the year of the Sorolla Centennial, and there are several exhibitions dedicated to the Valencian painter that are going to be developed in different cities in Spain.

And of course, Valencia I couldn't miss this appointment.

After its premiere in Sorolla Museum of Madridnow until June 11 you can visit in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia la “Sorolla, Origins” exhibition, a sample about the Sorolla's early years as an artist between 1878 and 1884.

This is his least known and studied stage, but you will be surprised by the intimacy of the exhibition and by the numerous personal memories and biographical details that you will find.

Try to trace the beginnings that led to Sorolla to develop his artistic approaches later in his artistic career.

What it is like and what to see in the exhibition Sorolla, Orígenes

"Sorolla. origins» It is a window to the past, probably one of the best Temporary exhibitions that this art gallery has offered us because of how documented it is.

In total it includes 93 works, 67 paintings, 26 photographs, 6 drawings and numerous memories from his childhood and student days.

The exhibition is made up of four sections: “Between Valencia and Madrid”, “the Regional Exhibition of 1883”, “Grand Prix Room” and “The art of portraying”.

The first room shows his training in “School of Craftsmen” where the artist studied drawing and in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in his native Valencia where he trained, while working in the thermal workshop of his uncle Jose.

In 1881 he traveled to Madrid for the first time and studied the works of Velázquez y Ribera in the Museo del Prado.

In current language it could be considered that Velázquez and Ribera were the "influencers” of the young man Sorolla.

This room is framed with photographic panels with their child photo, and now more adult painting in the Prado, where he spent the mornings with his easel to learn from the greats.

Next to them you can see sketches copied from different parts of Las Meninas, a fragment of the portrait of the Queen Mary of Austria, a horse or a dog also by Velázquez, as well as several marinas in the port of Valencia.

On another wall you will find a wide variety of flower paintings in which he recreated his layouts.

But they are his photographs, books, diplomas, registrations and degrees from the School of Artisans, some of the treasures that this exhibition offers you that allows us to get closer to its intimacy.

The “Grand Prize Room” is the heart of this exhibition, and reflects its participation in the Valencia regional exhibition in 1883, and in Madrid in the National Exhibition 1884, with the creation of large-format paintings.

In this age Sorolla He reaps great triumphs that will mark his later artistic future.

They are two fundamental years in his development as a painter, which will be marked by two large hyperrealist paintings, "The second of May", which is a complete sketch of the original found in the Prado museum, and allows us to see the painter's interest in these confrontations with Napoleon's France.

The other box is “The cry of the Palleter”, which allows us to see a farmer who played an important role in declaring war on Napoleon in 1884.

This oil painting earned him a scholarship from the Diputación de Valencia to go to study in Rome where he met the classics and expanded his studies.

The last room revolves around the “Art of Portraying” with the time he was a student in Valencia at the end of the 19th century, and shows his technique of maximum realism to present the greatest possible physical resemblance to his models.

Here the picture stands out "My friends" considered as a set of studies on eight male heads (1884).

In conclusion, this exhibition allows us to understand the beginnings of Sorolla and delve into what was one of the most relevant artists of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Sorolla Orígenes exhibition schedules in Valencia

The visiting hours of the Sorolla Origins exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia they are, until June 11, every day of the week, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m., except on Mondays, when the museum is closed.

La Admission to visit the Sorolla exhibition in Valencia is free.

In advance of your visit, you can sign up for guided tours that take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 17,30:11,30 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays, at 17,30:XNUMX and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.