Beyond Noucentisme: Joaquim Sunyer's Mediterranean Pastoral
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Taking as case study the painting Pastoral (1910-11), one of the iconic works of the Catalan artist Joaquim Sunyer (1874-1956), this paper examines the established link between Mediterraneanism and Noucentisme in Catalan culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. A look at how this work was received when it was first exhibited, and the sub-sequent re- reading of its iconography, enables us to understand Pastoral nowadays not as much as a symbol of Noucentisme, but more as a potential meeting point between the different aesthetic trends of the period