Lu Haskew

Flower Market, 16x12" oil on board

2008

Farmer's Market, by Lu Haskew Oil 16x24" image size Painting of a busy outdoor market selling vegetables, fruit and flowers This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the pri...

In Love with Flowers, by Lu Haskew Oil 30x24" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shippi...

Eye catching oil on paper of an outdoor flower market brimming with colorful blooms by French artist Raymond Bailly, circa 1970. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on...

La Rambla Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Spanish Post-Impressionist Oil Painting 1978 Artist: Joan Joseph Garí (b. 1922) Title: Rambla de les Flors, Barcelona Medium: Oil on burlap Date: 1978 Signature: Signed lower left Condition: Good condition Frame: Unframed Dimensions: 33 × 41 cm (13 × 16.15 in) DESCRIPTION Charming street scene depicting the famous flower stalls of La Rambla in Barcelona painted in 1978 by Spanish artist Joan Joseph Garí. Executed in oil on burlap, the composition captures pedestrians moving through the lively urban promenade framed by colorful floral displays and warm Mediterranean evening light. The textured surface of the burlap enhances the painterly atmosphere and reinforces the expressive brushwork typical of post-impressionist Catalan urban painting of the late twentieth century. The work reflects a documentary yet atmospheric interpretation of Barcelona’s most iconic boulevard during a period when the Rambla remained a central social and cultural meeting point of the city. Joan Joseph Garí (Granollers, 1922) was a Catalan painter associated with post-impressionist landscape and urban scene painting. Trained in Granollers and at the School of Fine Arts in Cádiz, he began exhibiting regularly from the 1950s onward in Barcelona, Terrassa, Vic, Olot and Bilbao, later presenting work internationally in Florida and Acapulco. His paintings focus primarily on Mediterranean landscapes and Catalan urban environments rendered with dense chromatic structure and expressive surface texture characteristic of late twentieth-century Spanish post-impressionist practice. ARTISTIC CONTEXT / COMPARATIVE FIELD This Barcelona street scene belongs to the long tradition of Catalan urban painting developed from the atmospheric boulevard views of Santiago Rusiñol and Ramon Casas through the structured Mediterranean modernity of Joaquim Sunyer and later continued in twentieth-century Barcelona street interpretations by Josep Amat and Francesc Serra Castellet. The lively pedestrian rhythm and floral foreground arrangements also connect with the broader European urban impressionist lineage associated with Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard and lesser-known boulevard painters working in Paris and Barcelona throughout the twentieth century. barcelona rambla painting la rambla flower market barcelona street scene painting catalan urban painting spanish post impressionist painting mediterranean street scene european boulevard painting flower market painting...