Post-Impressionist Artists from Barcelona

The three Catalonian artists featured, Joaquin Mir Trinxet, Ramon Casas, and Isidre Nonell all expanded on the popular, French Impressionist movement at the turn of the 19th century. While their work varied in subject matter, each artist depicted the modernizing world around them with a loose, sketchy brushstroke characteristic of Post Impressionism. Mir Trinxet subjected bustling landscapes, Casas specialized in portraits of Barcelona’s elite, while Nonell’s images of the city’s poor and marginalized represented the opposite end of society. Together, their works offer a broad view of Barcelona during a turbulent period: the decades before the Spanish Civil War, as Catalonia prepared to fight for independence.