Almost a century ago, Joaquin Sorolla set off on a journey around Spain to capture its “visions”, having been commissioned by American Hispanist Archer Huntington to decorate one of the rooms at the Hispanic Society in New York reflecting everyday Spanish life in the early 20th century. On this 7 year long journey, a mature and happy Sorolla, who could capture the Mediterranean light like nobody else, discovered the changing light of the rest of Spain: the radiant clarity of an autumn day, the luminositydiffused by the approach of winter, the brilliant spring sunshine ant the colour of hot summer days. He captured it all on 14 huge, incandescent canvases of Visión de España (vision of Spain), an exhibition showing at the Centro Cultural Bancaja in Valencia until 31st March.
