El baño del caballo
I know that Sorolla has been criticized many times, especially by his own generation. Nice pictures, kind themes, not involved. But that it's not completely fair, there is not other painter who has been able to capture the sun light like him. In order to achieve that you must have been born near the coast, maybe in I've heard recently in Six Feet Under that art must make you throw up. I don't agree. Sometimes art must go beyond all boundaries and change something inside you, but other times it's enough if it only makes you somehow happier.
This picture is about that, now that the darkness is covering this country, looking at this picture just makes me smile. It brings nice memories of my friends and me at the beach, sunbathing, swimming, laughing...Gandía, Gandía...
But also images from my childhood, when you didn't have a single worry in mind, only what game were you going to play next.
I confess, I have chosen El baño
