Spain land of artists

Discover the great artists who were born in Spain

Spain is on the podium of the countries that receive the greatest number of tourists in the world. In fact, it is the country that registers the greatest growth in the number of visitors. This is largely due to the fact that it squanders culture and art, being the cradle of true geniuses of universal art. There are many great artists born in Spain whose work you will be able to know closely when you visit us.

Pablo Picasso

The creator of Cubism is considered the most influential artist of the 20th century, and is for many the best of all time. With a work that reaches up to 1900 paintings, this universal Spaniard was a great innovator.

His painting “Las Señoritas de Avignon”, painted in 1907, is without a doubt the first manifestation of a movement that would mark an entire generation. Although some of his works are among the most expensive in the world in the hands of private collectors, in Spain you will find the best of his production in different museums and art galleries.

Francisco de Goya

Considered the most important Spanish artist of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goya left a work of great intensity, with a bold use of painting and a great display of imagination.

His work, which inspired the next generation, can be admired by visiting museums and galleries in Madrid and other cities, but mainly in Zaragoza, a city with which the artist had an intimate relationship.

Salvador Dalí

Versatile like few others, Dalí has undoubtedly been one of the most renowned painters of the 20th century, only surpassed by Picasso. This Catalan always lived surrounded by controversy, which was not an impediment to record his great talent as a painter, writer, director, sculptor and designer, where he had a leading role and extremely influential for subsequent generations.

The surrealist movement has in Dalí one of its fundamental pillars, whose work you will be able to appreciate in different places in Spain, being the House-Museum Salvador Dalí of Portlligat, in Catalonia, where you can best surround yourself with the scenes of this incomparable creator.

Antonio Gaudí

Without a doubt, the greatest architect ever born in Catalonia. Father of the Catalan modernist movement, this man left a legacy that continues to be one of the best ever in the history of Spain.

His masterpiece, the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family, is such a complex structure that he did not even have time to finish it during his lifetime. Declared a World Heritage Site, it is one of the most impressive works built by man.

Joaquín Sorolla

Sorolla has the merit of being one of the fundamental figures in the history of Spanish art, and one of the most universal painters of his time. His great sensitivity to capture light and movement has made him known as “The painter of light”.

Valencia being the cradle of this exceptional artist, the city becomes the ideal place to understand his great work full of rural landscapes, seafaring customs of the Spanish Mediterranean and his well-known portraits.

Although his creations are present in many parts of the country, in Madrid you have the opportunity to book a visit to the Sorolla Museum, former residence of the painter in the city, to appreciate several of his most famous works.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

This 17th century painter is the most outstanding exponent of Spanish religious art. Murillo was very famous all over Europe and nowadays all over the world, with works exhibited in the best museums.

If you travel to Seville, the city where he was born and where he lived most of his life, don’t forget to include in your itinerary a walk that allows you to visit Sorolla’s great work in different places in the city.

There is no doubt that Spain has many of the best artists with wide recognition worldwide. Visiting it will allow you to nourish yourself with its rich artistic tradition.