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Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of JoaquĆ­n Sorolla

Vorsanger, Rachel
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2024-04-29
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Art History
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Affect
 Realism
 Sentiment
 Politics
 Sorolla
 Spain
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Joaquin Sorollaā€™s Social Realist work Sad Inheritance! provides the grounds for this crosssectional case study into Social Realism in Spain, Spanish politics at the turn of the twentieth century, and affect theory in art. By formally analyzing this work, presenting its differing receptions in France and Spain, and discussing the identity crisis that Spain experienced at the end of the twentieth century, all within the frame of Jill Bennettā€™s conception of practical aesthetics and affect in art, this article will show how Sorolla produced an image that had differing valences of affect depending on the context in which it was viewed. Through his singular pictorial strategies, Sorolla successfully createdan image that was political and sentimental, controversial and appealing, fraught with emotion, and ultimately affective.
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Vorsanger, Rachel. 2024. Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of JoaquĆ­n Sorolla. Arts 13: 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13030078
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