Untitled, 1978

Joan Granados Llimona  

Cartoonist born in Barcelona in 1931. Grandson of musician Enrique Granados and painter Joan Llimona. He trained at the Llotja in Barcelona and at the Olot School of Fine Arts. He made his work known in Hamburg, Barcelona, Valencia, Girona, Figueres, Olot, Vic, Vidreres, Banyoles, Lleida, Calella, Palafrugell, Llafranc, etc. 

In 1984, The Clarà and Vayreda de Olot rooms dedicated an exhibition of drawings. Granados Llimona was one of the few Catalan artists who, draftsman to the core, did not succumb to the widespread prejudice of a supposed superiority of painting. In his production as a cartoonist, he brought together various procedures and specialties: the design of posters, the illustration of books, covers and Christmas greetings and, more importantly, the cultivation of drawing as an end in itself. 

As an autonomous work of art, with its infinite potential of qualities, line or stain resources, expressive distortions, spells and arabesques, resources in which he revealed himself as a true teacher, subjecting them to a vision of man and the world not because of eclectic and Varied less personal. He was also the author of several murals. He obtained multiple medals and drawing awards, especially from Girona and its regions, was a finalist in one of the editions of the Ynglada Guillot, being acquired work destined for the Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona.

In El Quatre, he made an unusual exhibition in him, with oil paintings in 1986, this being the second individual exhibition organized by the Gallery.