{"id":6746,"date":"2018-02-13T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/a-propos-de-l-artiste\/joan-gonzalez\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:43:06","slug":"joan-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/a-propos-de-l-artiste-2\/joan-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan GONZALEZ (1868-1908)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joan Gonzalez, Autoportrait<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Joan GONZALEZ<\/h3>\t\t\t

Joan Gonzalez begins his career as an artisan metal-worker in the family workshop in Barcelona, just like his younger brother, Julio. They both take evening classes in painting and drawing, in the hopes of realizing their common dream of becoming “real” artists.<\/p>\n

At their father’s death, they decide to sell the family business and pursue this dream in Paris, widely considered the capital of the arts. As such, the entire Gonzalez family settles in Montparnasse, the Parisian neighborhood which would soon become the center of the avant-garde milieu. Joan’s extraverted and sociable nature facilitates the brothers’ integration into a dynamic community of fellow Spanish, French and international artists, critics and writers.<\/p>\n

Joan exhibits his lyrical drawings, captured with bold, free strokes, at the 1904 Salon d’Automne in Paris, at Barcelona’s\u00a0Salon Par\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0in 1906 and at the Parisian Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants in 1908. However, that same year, his promising career is cut short by his untimely death due to his fragile health. Julio, devastated, is left to pursue their dream alone.<\/p>\n

Years later, in 1957, Joan’s niece, Roberta, discovers a stash of drawings in the family house created by the uncle she’d heard so much about but never personally met. She decides to donate a significant portion of these drawings to prestigious institutions like the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e du Louvre<\/a>\u00a0and London’s\u00a0Tate Modern<\/a>, allowing in a way her uncle’s dream to be finally be realized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Joan Gonzalez, Les arbres agit\u00e9s : arbres et buissons au feuillage vert, s.d., aquarelle, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, d\u00e9partement des arts graphiques<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Joan Gonzalez, Deux parisiennes, c.1903-4, pastel sur papier, 406 x 232 mm, Tate London<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Joan Gonzalez, Jeune fille \u00e0 la robe rouge, 1902-3, pastel sur papier, 556 x 225 mm, Tate London<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joan Gonzalez begins his career as an artisan metal-worker in the family workshop in Barcelona, just like his younger brother, Julio. They both take evening classes in painting and drawing, in the hopes of realizing their common dream of becoming “real” artists. At their father’s death, they decide to sell the family business and pursue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":6742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-6746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6746\/revisions\/6919"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}