José María Medina

JOSE MARIA MEDINA (Murcia, 1866- Madrid, 1935).
"Autumn landscape".
Oil on canvas.
It has patches on the back and restorations.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 50 x 25 cm; 66 x 40 cm (frame).
In this piece we find an autumn landscape, illuminated by the light of cold tonality. The Painting of the 19th century proposes a new order, Romanticism. Where neoclassicism proposed an ideal beauty, rationalism, virtue, line, the cult of classical antiquity and the Mediterranean, Romanticism opposed it and promoted the heart, passion, the irrational, the imaginary, disorder, exaltation, color, brushstrokes and the cult of the Middle Ages and the mythologies of Northern Europe.Towards the middle of the century there was a return, in a certain way, to rationalism as a source of inspiration. The English landscape painters of Romanticism would lay the foundations on which the Impressionists would later work. From Turner the impressionists would take their taste for transience, their blurred and vaporous surfaces, the blurring and the mixture of intense colors; but they would discard the sublime component, typical of romantic painting.
Painter and decorator José María Medina was known as "The first introducer of modernism in Murcia". He trained academically under the guidance of Josér María Sobejano and later at the Academia Superior de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. He was in charge of the ornamentation of the Hotel de Matías Pérez Carrillo in Fortuna, a work for which he gained great recognition.