Darío de Regoyos

Darío de Regoyos y Valdés (November 1, 1857 – October 29, 1913) was a Spanish painter. He was notable for contributing to "the renewal of modern Spanish painting". A student of Carlos de Haes at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1878, he later studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He traveled extensively in the 1880s, accompanied by his friend, the painter Adolfo Guiard. He was a member of the art group L'Essor and a founding member of Les XX with the Belgian avant-garde scene. During these experiences he gained a significant influence from Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters.

His works include El paseo de Alderdi Eder (1894), Penaas de Duranguesado, La España Negra: Víctimas de la fiesta (1894), Mercado de Villarnaca de Oria (1909), Gallinero (1912) and Polluelos (1912). Though his work was not very popular during his lifetime, after his death, a tribute exhibition was devoted to him in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. Collections of his art are held by the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, Abelló Museum in Vallès Oriental, and the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga. He died in 1913 and was buried in the Sant Gervasi Cemetery, Barcelona.

Early years Regoyos was born in Ribadesella, He was a student of Belgian Carlos de Haes. Invited by friends Enrique Fernández Arbós and Isaac Albéniz, and following the advice of Haes, Regoyos visited Brussels in the following year. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and lived in the Belgian capital for ten years, his patron being Edmond Picard, who introduced him to the thriving art world in Brussels.

Career

Between 1881 and 1893, he travelled between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain. In 1882, he travelled to Morocco and Spain with Théo van Rysselberghe and Frantz Charlet. In the 1880s, he made several trips to Paris, accompanied by his friend, painter Adolfo Guiard. He encouraged exhibitions, concerts and other cultural activities in order to develop modern art in Belgium. As such, he was a member of the art group L'Essor and a founding member of Les XX with the Belgian avant-garde scene. He also painted several smoking locomotive paintings.

Style In his early stage, Regoyos' painting evolved from Naturalism to pre-symbolism, an example being his series The black Spain, to Impressionism and Pointillism, being somewhat more daring than Ignacio Zuloaga and Joaquín Sorolla. In his mature stage, he created abundant landscapes en plein air of locations of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa. His drawing was characterized as being somewhat primary, almost naive, in contrast to his colorful international taste, which was then largely unrivaled in Spain. in Spain, he is best known for his introduction of Impressionism techniques.

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