Evaristo VALLE
Valley's vocation for painting begins in Puerto Rico where his father had moved to work as a judge of the Audiencia. Under the tutelage of his father he made his first drawings. It was a self-taught and you can not fit into any school of painting. His works are full of mystery, wisdom and wealth of color. Evaristo Valle is considered one of the highest and delightful personalities, not only of English contemporary art, but of all time.
She met with great lucidity archetypal works as "The Poet", "football" "The three witches," "My friend Peter the fisherman," "The Source", "Propaganda in the mine "," Don Quixote "
At age 12 is no father and the family returned to Gijón. Economic difficulties forced him to perform various jobs: bank clerk, a clerk at an oil refinery, and later worked as a lithographer. At 23, he decided to go to Paris. During his stay in Paris, went through times of economic slack, and other major hardship. He worked as an illustrator and cartoonist stories and comics. In 1902 he returned to Gijón and there successfully exposes their works. The City Council granted an annual grant of 3500 pesetas to complete his training in Paris. Return to Gijon in 1911 and is from the back, when it starts to deploy very active. Write constantly, novels and drama, and paints landscapes and his famous "Carnival" Valle fundamental contribution to English painting. ("Whirlwind of color and mystery, according to Ramon Baragaño). To address their exposures and make themselves known, travels to London, Paris and Havana
In 1922, gets a huge success with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Madrid, was perhaps the most recognized throughout the long career.
In his paintings, of Asturian issue, the versatile and self Evaristo Valle proved to be a great artist, painter of landscapes, figures and portraits, with an extraordinary command of light and color, highlighting mainly by your imagination and irony. There are those who warn it influences Gauguin and Goya.
The images that you see below represent only a fraction of its extensive production and feel that the contribution could not be greater. If I have been able to arouse your interest in the work of Evaristo Valle , will be worth the effort.
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Source: Fundación Museo Evaristo Valle
The realities of daily life views with humor, they are still but they are really nice. Society is full of unsung heroes, to them I dedicate my attention. Poetry have here a small space. 
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