Joaquim Mir Trinxet

Art Brokerage: Catalan Spanish artist, Joaquim Mir Trinxet, (1873-1940) lived through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, and was known by the color of his paintings. They helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernism. Mir Trinxet painted landscapes in Tarragona and Majorca (perhaps his best known works, and certainly the ones that contributed most to create the myth of the artist that merged with nature and lost himself in a delirium of light and colour). In his late works created in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Mir Trinxet intensified the realist side of his work. "All I want is for my works to lighten the heart and flood the eyes and the soul with light." This was how Mir Trinxet summed up his private art manifesto in 1928. Colour and light meant everything to Mir, and he used them to build a personal idiom in which he created a surprisingly modern oeuvre, beyond the art movements like Impressionism or Symbolism with which critics have often sought to associate him. Although his artistic development varied between realism and abstraction, two features crop up throughout his entire output: the urge to establish a new vision of nature and an unremitting search for beauty marked by genuine creative tension.