Ramon Casas
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Ramon Casas i Carbó was a Catalan artist from Spain. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, Catalonia, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intell
Self-portrait, 1908
Self-portrait as a flamenco dancer, 1883
Bulls (Dead Horses), 1886
Garrote vil (Garrotte), 1894
Modernisme
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Modernisme, also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search for a new entitlement of Cat
Ramon Casas
…to rioters in the Barcelona streets (El garrot). Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme. Casas was born in Barcelona. His father had made a fortune in Matanzas, Cuba; his mother was from a well-off Spanish family. In 1877 he abandoned the…
Duana de Barcelona (Customs House), by Enric Sagnier
The Castle of the Three Dragons in Barcelona
Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona
The Sagrada Família, an icon of Modernisme, by Antoni Gaudí