Suñol, Alvar
Alvar Suñol (Montgat, 1935) is a Catalan painter and printmaker whose work sits between poetic figuration and a symbolic sensibility shaped by memory, Mediterranean tradition and the experience of travel.
Artworks
Con tiempo y meditación
Oil/canvas 100x100 cm
Untitled
Óleo / lienzo 81 x 100 cm
Flors per a tres
Óleo/lienzo 130x97 cm
El pintor i la model
Oil/canvas 97x130 cm
Taula, cadira i coloms
Oil/canvas
81x100 cm
Composition
Oil/canvas
73x92 cm
Biography
Trained in Barcelona at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, he became connected to postwar artistic circles, developing early on a personal language distinct from more radical avant-garde movements. His painting is characterised by idealised figures, timeless scenes and a personal iconography where the everyday and the mythical coexist.
Throughout his career he has focused on painting and printmaking, using a delicate sense of colour and balanced compositions close to a serene and narrative figuration.
Alvar Suñol’s work occupies a distinctive place within contemporary figuration for its ability to build an intimate, recognisable and poetic visual world.
Throughout his career he has focused on painting and printmaking, using a delicate sense of colour and balanced compositions close to a serene and narrative figuration.
Alvar Suñol’s work occupies a distinctive place within contemporary figuration for its ability to build an intimate, recognisable and poetic visual world.