Barcelona, 1961, http://claragraciapintora.blogspot.com/
Catalan painter Clara Gràcia draws inspiration from nature’s atmospheric sensibilities. Having been formally trained in Paris, Gràcia’s aesthetic looks to the Impressionistic and Fauvist idioms that emerged in the nineteenth-century French school. The artist employs traditional materials, including oils and acrylic paints as well as canvas supports. Her compositions vary in size from small and intimate to large and dramatically commanding. However, her botanical subjects alleviate any sense of intimidation the spectator may feel upon viewing her large-scale paintings, in turn enabling one to meditate on the bright and saturated blues, greens, and pinks that often dominate her landscape paintings.
Using a palette knife rather than traditional brushes, Gràcia captures scenes from nature with hurried and equally broad strokes of paint. However, the artist does not sacrifice nature’s intrinsic complexities. Rather, Gràcia’s thick impasto intensifies these complexities with its palpable texture. Her forms seem to blend and interact with one another, harking back to the existing symbiosis within nature
Collective Exhibitions
2010
- Città Amica. Torino . Italia.
- Hyogo Museum. Kobe. Japon
- Galeria 89. Paris.
- Modern and Contemporany Art Fair of Bozen, Italy.
- Arte Contra el Racismo. S.O.S Racismo Madrid.
2009
- Exposició Col.lectiva “Edingurh Art Fair 2009” . Edinburgh. Escocia.
- Museo Roca, Buenos Aires.Argentina.
- Galeria Artimundo, Belgica. Brusel.les.
- Fort Lauderdale Multicultural Art Institute. Miami.
- Salon International du Val D’or, Meillant. Francia
- Accademia Internazionale “Città di Roma”, Roma.
- Salle Paroissiale Saint Pierre de Montmartre, Paris.
- Sysproductions Gallery Miami (Florida).
- Centro Cultural UNESCO, Romania.
- San Giorgio, Salerno, Italia.
- Art Expo New York, Javitz Convention Center
