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Jordi Curos Expressive Fauvist Floral Still Life, Original Oil Painting European Art C.1980
sitges, Spain
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Fauvist Floral Still Life Original Oil Painting
Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017)
Title: Floral Still Life
Date: Circa 1980
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 × 27 cm / 13.78 × 10.63 in
Signature: Signed lower right
Frame: Unframed
Condition: Good condition
Style: Fauvist / Modern
Period: 20th Century
Subject: Floral Still Life
Original oil painting by Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017), depicting a vibrant bouquet of flowers arranged in a glass vase.
The composition is dominated by intense yellow flowers contrasted with powerful blues, greens and muted grey tones. Curós applies the paint with energetic, generous brushwork and pronounced impasto, giving the flowers an almost sculptural presence and producing a rich, tactile surface.
The work belongs to the artist’s mature figurative period, when Curós returned to recognisable subjects after his involvement with abstraction and Informalism, while retaining the freedom of gesture, chromatic intensity and material richness developed during those earlier years.
The strong contrasts and liberated use of colour give the painting a distinctly Fauvist character, while its luminosity and spontaneity connect it firmly to the Mediterranean pictorial tradition.
Signed “Curós” lower right.
The reverse bears a handwritten dedication and signature by the artist.
ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
The expressive use of colour and the freedom of the brushwork place this painting within a tradition associated with some of the major figures of European modern painting. The vivid chromatic contrasts recall the Fauvist language of Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, while the intimate still-life subject and luminous atmosphere evoke the work of Pierre Bonnard and Raoul Dufy.
The dense, almost sculptural treatment of pigment also creates affinities with Nicolas de Staël, particularly in the way colour becomes a material presence rather than merely a descriptive element. At the same time, Curós’s Mediterranean sensibility connects naturally with the modern Spanish tradition represented by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Joaquín Sorolla, artists for whom colour, light and direct visual impact were essential elements of their pictorial language.
These references do not imply direct imitation, but help situate Curós within the broader context of 20th-century European painting, where Fauvism, Expressionism, abstraction and Mediterranean light often converged.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Jordi Curós Ventura was born in Olot, Catalonia, in 1930 and trained at the School of Arts and Crafts of Olot, one of the most important centres of Catalan artistic tradition.
His first solo exhibition took place in Barcelona in 1950. From 1951 he participated in the Salons d'Octubre, one of the key artistic manifestations of post-war Barcelona.
In 1952 Curós was selected by Eugeni d'Ors to participate in the X Salón de los Once, and in 1953 he took part in the II Bienal Hispanoamericana in Havana.
Between approximately 1958 and 1963 his work moved toward abstraction and Informalism, characterised by strong textures, experimental materials and intense colour. He later returned to figurative painting, developing a highly personal style centred on Mediterranean landscapes, markets, flowers and still lifes.
Curós exhibited extensively in Barcelona, including repeated exhibitions at Sala Parés between 1965 and 1989, as well as in Madrid and internationally.
His mature work is particularly recognised for its luminous colour, expressive brushwork and richly textured surfaces.
Floral Still Life
Flower Painting
Fauvist Painting
Original Oil Painting
Spanish Painting
Catalan Painting
Modern Still Life
Mediterranean Art
Impasto Painting
Expressionist Painting
Post-War Spanish Art
Yellow Flowers
Blue Flowers
Bouquet Painting
20th Century Spanish Art
Modern European Art
Spanish Modern Art
Colorful Painting
Henri Matisse
Raoul Dufy
André Derain
Maurice de Vlaminck
Pierre Bonnard
Nicolas de Staël
Pablo Picasso
Joan Miró
Joaquín Sorolla
Jordi Curós
European art with a Mediterranean soul.
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