The Assimilation of Impressionism
Around the year 1900 a new generation of artists some ten years younger than the pioneering Modernistas appeared on the scene. These included Marià Pidelaserra and Ricard Canals, the two painters who best assimilated the lessons of French Impressionism. Pidelaserra, who was regarded the only truly Impressionist Catalan artist, painted cityscapes of Paris and Pointillist landscapes of Montseny that were greeted with such a cold response that he decided to give up painting altogether for a time. Canal's oeuvre clearly revealed the influence of Auguste Renoir, even though during his alliance with the French dealer Durand-Ruel he would devote a number of works to motifs derived from Spanish folklore, and his style would subsequent evolve towards Noucentisme. This section also presents works by other key artists of that time such as the Alfred Sisley, Aureliano de Beruete or Joaquín Sorolla, and paintings by Joaquim Sunyer and Hermen Anglada Camarasa dating from their respective Parisian periods.
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