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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida nació en Valencia en 1863. Despues de quedar huerfano de padre y madre (colera). Junto con su hermana menor fue a vivir con sus tios, y a los 14 comenzo a estudiar pintura. A los 18 viajo a Madrid con una beca de estudios. Visito muy frecuentementer el Museo del Prado para estudiar a los grandes. Después del servicio militar a los 22, obtuvo otra beca para estudiar en Roma por un tiempo.
Su viaje a Paris significo mucho mas, y durante una larga estadia en Paris, conocio y compartio con los impreisonistas de la epoca. De regreso a Roma, estudio con Jose Benlliure y Jose Villegas.
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish) Valencian: Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida) (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Valencian Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land.
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Sad Inheritance, 1900. Crippled children bathing at the sea in Valencia; in the center the image of two children affected by polio. An even greater turning point in Sorolla's career was marked by the painting and exhibition of Sad Inheritance (1899, seen at right), an extremely large canvas, highly finished for public consideration. The subject was a depiction of crippled children bathing at the sea in Valencia, under the supervision of a monk. The polio epidemic that struck some years earlier the land of Valencia is present, possibly for the first time in the history of painting, through the image of the two affected children. The painting earned Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honor at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, and the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid in 1901. With this painting Sorolla ceased his career as a salon artist, and never returned to a theme of such overt social consciousness. At the same time, a series of preparatory oil sketches for Sad Inheritance were painted with the greatest luminosity and bravura, and foretold an increasing interest in shimmering light and of a medium deftly handled.[8] Sorolla thought well enough of these sketches that he presented two of them as gifts to American artists; one to John Singer Sargent, the other to William Merritt Chase.