Upon completion of their academic studies, Bonsor decided to make the trip to Spain to form his painting style. His paintings had as main theme popular figures and scenes customs, demanded by the market very artistic.
Bonsor chose Spain as a place to find scenes to capture in his paintings based on the research of light and influenced by his previous trips to this country. It has been said that this was attracted to Spain by his romantic image, and linking with the British and French romantic travelers. Whether or not certain that assertion, the peak period of the romantic movement had occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century, many years before its time, although the interest they had aroused Spain as a destination and exotic orientalist stood as a cultural topic, that the most profound studies of Hispanics will endeavor to counter.
It is known to very good precision travel Bonsor by Spain, the route followed and their views through a newspaper that made during the same. According to the travel route, the main purpose of the trip was to Andalucia, although as with any journey There is always a gap for the unexpected. In most of his trip accompanying Paulus, a fellow of the Academy of Brussels of Belgian origin and Catholic beliefs, which I quote in Paris on September 10, 1880, as Bonsor par from Brussels. From here they left by train to Bordeaux to go to Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz, and Spain agreed to by Irun. The first stop after the border was Burgos.
Edificio de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in the streets of Alcala.
The fundamental objective of the trip was to visit the monuments, museums, paint and anything else they thought might interest the young painters. Like them, many of his fellow of the Academy undertook similar trips by other European countries.
Burgos engaged in friendship with the painter Primitivo Carcedo, who taught the city, with special attention to the Cathedral and the Charterhouse of Miraflores, helped them with the learning of the Castilian and led for the first time at a tavern. Upon arrival in Madrid went immediately to the emblematic Puerta del Sol, later visited the collection of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando to admire the famous painting by Francisco Pradilla "Dona Juana la Loca" (1877) medal of honor The National Exhibition of 1878, as well as the collection of old paintings. After making copies in the Prado Museum and visit the National Archaeological Museum concludes: "the city of Madrid sovereign bored me."
Given this state of mind, leaving at the end of September due Madrid to Toledo, where upon arrival manifesto: "The city of Toledo at first glance like me enormously and I see that I have many things to paint here." Its focus is primarily on the description of customs, especially of the provincial bourgeoisie and the characters that were attractive to any foreigner as beggars, Gypsies, priests or sangradores, as well as in the description of the historical monuments -art. Logically, the monuments are valued and described from an artistic point of view, but taking into account its historical past. Bonsor looked alive the past in Spain which provided.
After his stay in Toledo went by train to Cordoba where he remained only one day and I visit in haste, the bridge over the Guadalquivir, the walls and the mosque. Cordova, being a city of way between Madrid and Seville, was not a major stop for other passengers before Bonsor, where he was arrested a few hours to appreciate the mosque-cathedral, an attitude also adopted by the young Bonsor. On Feb. 17 came to Seville, where he was waiting for his traveling companion Paulus, who had arrived a few weeks earlier.
Sevilla, just as happened with Madrid, was not a city that likes to paint. With the only goal of contemplating the works of his admired Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, visit the Cathedral, the Provincial Museum and the Charity Hospital and by chance discovered the painting of Juan de Valdes Leal. Sevilla qualify for contemporary painters as mediocre, not feeling any appreciation for them. Then he decided to visit Carmona advised by his father, who had been there in 1845.
In this first visit to Carmona, just 4 days, was intensely dedicated to painting, looking carefully corners of the city and its environs. The images that are reflected in his canvases altar boy in the courtyard of the Naranjos of the Priory Church of Santa Maria, a landscape with the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace, who was at the foot of the Alcazar and disappeared today, the streets of the Convent Santa Clara with a Aguadores with his donkey, or the market square of supply.
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