Valencia resident’s contribution renames a painting by Sorolla

One month ago, Antoni Pascual benefited from staying here Madrid To visit the Sorolla Museumdiscovered a painting that transports him directly to his childhood. summoned Staged ‘Los Farolillos’ and a well-established Valencian tradition Through the representation of a country gentleman in the courtyard of a house in the municipality of Bocairent, accompanied by two children carrying two watermelons, lit, emptied and decorated with strings.

However, when he accepted the official explanation offered by the museum to contextualize the canvas, Pascual warned of a mistake he could not let go: the video showed: lanterns are made of paper without going too far into the old popular tradition.Very common throughout the Valencian Community. This Bocairenti man, who works in finance and fell in love with Sorolla’s painting, decided to send a letter to the museum custodians explaining what the ‘fantasies’ were and how they were made. evokes memories of her childhood and the times her grandfather took care to do for her at the family cottage every summer. Its sole purpose is to bring information to the attention of the organization and try to fix the error.

The surprise came when she checked her email a few days later and found a response written by Covadonga Pitarch, curator of the Sorolla Museum and one of the two curators of ‘Happy Age’. Contains the 1891 work from the collection of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). The letter thanks Antoni Pascual for his remarks and announces that the exhibition has been included in the exhibition at its new headquarters in Fundación Bancaixa de València, which can be visited from July 15 to November 13. But the effects of the visitor’s letter went even further. Based on your explanations, the museum has decided Rename the painting to include the denomination of tradition it portrays so well in Valencia. Thus, the piece was named ‘Lanterns or lanterns’. The letter from the curator ends by reiterating the Madrid museum’s thanks to Pascual for bringing the inside and outside of Valencian tradition, and wishing him to regain more.

Make tradition visible

The architect of this small but at the same time great change is overjoyed that the entity has accepted his humble request; this allows the ‘fans’ and their actual compositions made of watermelons to be made visible. The painting was hardly known in Valencian territory until he returned with the ‘Happy Age’ and when he came across it by chance, his first experience caused him to give it a shot. great impression, as it captures a past reality and is also still present in many municipalities. For him, the most important thing for a museum located in Madrid is to realize the Valencian tradition – “the museum wouldn’t exist if it were here”, scrolling – it absorbs it and spreads it to all its visitors, expanding its boundaries. information considering that he has gone lose and lose weight some places.

Pascual uploaded the work to his Twitter profile and soon reached 40,000 views. “There were a lot of people who didn’t know him and reminded him of the customs of his childhood in town,” she says. Sorolla depicted this country scene deftly playing with lights on a farm in her hometown while her daughter was sick. The painting was a dedicated gift to his friend Luis Simarro Lacabra, originally from Jàtiva. Professor of Experimental Psychology put the legacy in the hands of his Foundation, which would later be taken over by Complutense.

Source: Informacion

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