Joaquín Torrents Lladó

Joaquín Torrents Lladó ( Catalan Joaquim Torrents i Lladó ; born February 11, 1946 in Badalona ; † October 6, 1993 ) was a Spanish painter .

Life

Torrents Lladó began his artistic training at the age of ten in the Academia Valls , where he dealt with informalism, among other things. From 1962 to 1967 he studied at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi in Barcelona . At the same time he was also engaged in theater and scenography. In the second year of his studies, he increasingly alienated himself from abstract painting and approached a new figurative way of painting calm and intransigent forms. In 1967 he finished his studies of fine arts and received a scholarship from the Fundació Amigó Cuyas Foundation .

From 1968 he devoted himself to scenography in order to combine his passions of painting and theater. He moved to Valldemossa in Mallorca . There he founded a studio and began to create a series of pictures and self-portraits. In July 1969 he founded art studio together with Carmen Crespí, a colleague of the Escola de San Jordi. He also took over the scenic direction of the Auba Theater from Son Ferriol .

In 1971 he organized his first exhibition on Mallorca in the Galerías Costa. As a result, he received orders for paintings and gave up his activities in the theater. He moved to Palma .

From 1974 to 1975 Torrents Lladó lived in Madrid . During this time he made trips to Copenhagen and Stockholm, where he created portraits of members of the royal families. A portrait of Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón also dates from this period. Further trips took him to Brazil and the United States of America. In 1977 he founded the Escuela Libre del Mediterráneo based in Palau Verí on Mallorca.

In 1982 he set up a professorship at the Escuela Libre del Mediterráneo in Barcelona, where he was able to implement his inclinations towards artistic education. Its exhibition rooms have become a center of contemporary art.

In 1990 and 1992 works by Torrents Lladó were exhibited in Los Angeles and Japan. In 1993 he traveled to London and Venice.

Torrents Lladó died on October 6, 1993 of an aortic aneurysm.

Works

The first works of Torrent Lladó are those of abstract art. Later he devoted himself to representational art and the problems of its representation. Portraits were in the foreground of his painting; People portrayed by him preferred to wear luxurious clothes. In addition, Torrents Lladó created pictures in which, in his own way, expressive representations of landscapes and gardens are made from colored spots.

Torrents Lladó traced the soul of models or landscapes whose interior he tried to capture. His works are characterized by a rich color palette that reflects his perception of what is actually painted.

Casa Museo J. Torrents Lladó

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personal data
SURNAME	Torrents Lladó, Joaquín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Torrents i Lladó, Joaquim (Catalan spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Badalona
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1993