JUAN PABLO SALINAS TERUEL (Madrid, 1871 - Rome,... Lot 84
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JUAN PABLO SALINAS TERUEL (Madrid, 1871 - Rome, 1946).
"Orientalist scene".
Watercolor on paper.
Presents label on the back of the D'Arte Gallery, Italy.
Signed and located (Rome) in the lower left corner.
Measurements. 68 x 39 cm; 93 x 65 cm (frame).
In this work realized in Rome, the author presents a scene of great crudeness when portraying a man restrained by chains. Both his turban and his clothes take us to the oriental world. A trend that was born in the 19th century as a consequence of the romantic spirit of escape in time and space. The first orientalists sought to reflect the lost, the unattainable, in a dramatic journey destined from the beginning to failure. Like Flaubert in "Salambo", painters painted detailed portraits of the Orient and imagined pasts, recreated to the millimeter, but ultimately unknown and idealized. During the second half of the 19th century, however, many of the painters who traveled to the Middle East in search of this invented reality discovered a different and new country, which stood out with its peculiarities above the clichés and prejudices of Europeans. Thus, this new orientalist school leaves behind the beautiful odalisques, the harems and the slave markets to paint nothing but what they see, the real Orient in all its daily dimension.
Juan Pablo Salinas began his artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in Madrid, although his time in the classrooms was probably ephemeral. He began to make himself known in 1885, the year in which he participated in the exhibition organized by the Association of Writers and Artists and in the Aragonese Exhibition, being awarded a third class medal in both. Around 1886 he moved to Rome to further his studies thanks to a scholarship granted by the Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza. There he attended the International Circle of Fine Arts, as well as the evening classes of the Chigi Academy. He also joined the Spanish artistic colony residing in the city, and worked with his brother, the painter Agustín Salinas, who had been living in Rome since 1883. Both brothers submitted works to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1887; Juan Pablo sent "Mark Antony and Cleopatra", a classical theme. Like his brother, his true master, Salinas also recreated medieval themes of notable Tuscan influence, with works such as "Romeo and Juliet" or "Scene from the Decameron". His style evolved towards costumbrismo, with special attention to popular Spanish and Italian scenes, such as "Una boda en Aragón" (A Wedding in Aragón), "Regreso de los vendimiadores" (Return of the Grape Harvesters) and other works. His career remained closely linked to that of his brother until he met, on a trip to Paris, the work of Ernest Meissonier, whose influence led him to focus on the genre of casacons, with which he achieved great sales success in France, Italy, Central Europe, Russia and America. During these years he exhibited in the Salons Roger and began his famous compositions of eighteenth-century atmosphere, in which characters dressed in the fashion of the time appear in the context of luxurious interiors, meticulously detailed through a precious technique, which is recreated in the colorful description of clothes and lace, but, above all, in the masterful treatment of female flesh tones, deliberately sensual. Also at this stage Salinas made several series for the decoration of large salons. In addition to these themes, he also painted orientalist scenes and church interiors. In the last stage of his career there is a decrease in detail, a looser and less descriptive character. Juan Pablo Salinas is currently represented in the Prado Museum (his work is on deposit at the Asturias Fine Arts Museum in Oviedo), the Bellver Collection in Seville and other public and private collections.
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