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The Wounded Foot
Creator
Joaquín Sorolla y BastidaSpanish Artist · 1863–1923
All works by this person →Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida began to study painting at the age of fifteen in his native Valencia, Spain. At the age of eighteen, he went to Madrid, where he copied Old Master paintings in the Museo del Prado. Four years later, Sorolla won a grant to study painting in Rome; there he developed a distinct ability for depicting the effects of light. When Sorolla returned to Madrid, his paintings were in
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- 1909
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Spanish
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The colored reflections of late afternoon light animate this beach scene and actively define the forms, from the injured child's shoulder to the liquid sea and the figures playing in the water. The sun's highlights on the hurt child's hand, the sand around her foot, and her companion's hat draw the viewer's attention to the injured limb. While on the beach at Valencia, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida rapidly painted a group of pictures including *The Wounded Foot.* Like the Impressionists before him, Sorolla worked outdoors to capture the momentary effects of light, water, and people in motion. This painting's casual snapshot-like cropping, which cuts off the arm of the child at the left, gives the viewer the same sense of immediacy, as if he or she has accidentally happened upon an impromptu exchange between two children on the sand.
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