Majorca, Circa 2000

Josep Meneses  

This Catalan painter, settled for years in Mallorca, offers a series of landscapes in which the natural is treated in the impressionist way, with a great force colorist and energetic brushstroke. Their fabrics, in which the plastic element is present, are exponents of a lively, spontaneous interpretation full of light and color.

The Balearic Islands and its landscape have in the pictorial work of Josep Meneses, a great mentor, who makes of these islands the raison d'être of his painting. An art that is not a product of a mental analysis of the contents of nature, but of the integration of man with the landscape of a technique in which colors and volumes are intermingled to invite the viewer to submerge in the subject, achieving a Communication between landscape and emotion.

The palette of Meneses has a loose and spontaneous brushstroke, direct and loaded all of energy and desires to communicate all the impressions that the artist has received in his contemplation of the landscape, reflected in both a Fauvist and Cezánian form; But not without serenity.

Its theme is rich in places that the artist devours with fast and accurate scribbles, which will serve as sketches for the final work. Wooded lands, incredible coves, igneous rocks, beaches of gold and silver, white or calm waters, reflections of moon on the sea, small houses, harbors and sunrises are captured with expressiveness and nobility. Also with unusual beauty.