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Lot Essay
Cadaqués es un tema vivo dentro de la pintura de Meifrén, vuelve a él porque las distintas variaciones de la naturaleza a lo largo del año le permiten mostrar nuevas sensaciones. El dinamismo de las aguas y paralelamente el de las masas nubosas le permite captar el mundo en incesante movimiento, que gracias a su buen oficio sabe transmitir al espectador. La riqueza cromática de esta versión de Cadaqués, una de las mayores y más elaboradas que pintó, es un reto de técnica y un disfrute para los sentidos. Los pescadores se encuentran en primer término sobre una mancha verde, ascendiendo con la mirada al reflejo del pueblo sobre el agua en calma, los muros blancos y los tejados ocres del pueblo que destacan sobre las montañas verdes y pardas que están guardadas por un cielo nuboso. Los planos se superponen en un zigzag de diagonales, pintados con una depurada pincelada más suelta o abigarrada según la sensación que quiera transmitir. La luz del ambiente cala en el espectador y sonreímos con júbilo ante esta visión idílica y atrayente de este fragmento de la costa gerundense.
Meifrén returned to the iconic subject of Cadaqués many times and on each occasion managed to evoke new sensations by capturing the ever changing green and grey tones of the sea and sky. The artist's technical challenge in this painting is to capture not only a moment of time in Cadaqués but to seize an instant in the changing natural world throughout the day.
The chromatic richness of the present work makes it one of the most elaborate and complex renditions of this motif. The fishermen in the foreground on a green shore, the reflection of the village in the calm water, the whitewashed walls and ochre roofs of the village, which echo the shapes of the mountains under a cloudy sky - all combine to create a layered composition of great depth, in which the artist has varied his brushstrokes according to the sensation he wishes to convey. The whole composition is unified by a powerful ambient light, which draws the viewer into an idyllic fragment of the Gerona coast.
Meifrén returned to the iconic subject of Cadaqués many times and on each occasion managed to evoke new sensations by capturing the ever changing green and grey tones of the sea and sky. The artist's technical challenge in this painting is to capture not only a moment of time in Cadaqués but to seize an instant in the changing natural world throughout the day.
The chromatic richness of the present work makes it one of the most elaborate and complex renditions of this motif. The fishermen in the foreground on a green shore, the reflection of the village in the calm water, the whitewashed walls and ochre roofs of the village, which echo the shapes of the mountains under a cloudy sky - all combine to create a layered composition of great depth, in which the artist has varied his brushstrokes according to the sensation he wishes to convey. The whole composition is unified by a powerful ambient light, which draws the viewer into an idyllic fragment of the Gerona coast.