Artist field note

Joaquín Sorolla

Sunlight becomes social atmosphere.

Appears inSpain
Sewing the Sail by Joaquín Sorolla
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Sewing the Sail

1896

Collective labour unfolds beneath a canopy flooded with Mediterranean brightness.

The five in one idea

Sorolla made light both a sensual subject and a way of seeing bodies within modern Spanish life.