Cómo cambiar tu vida con Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla's work is one of the most popular in the history of Spanish art. Paradoxically, his exciting life is little known. Required by the social and intellectual elites of Europe and America, he was one of the great artists of his time, who triumphed in the salons of Paris and in the emerging New York. He inhabited the fascinating world of the late 19th century and early 20th century, with the development of modernity and the arrival of great inventions. He lived through the debauchery of the Belle Époque, the Madrid of gatherings and zarzuelas, and the tribulations of the generation of '98, who criticized the "joy of living" in his paintings. A tireless, discreet, ambitious and self-demanding worker, his greatest wishes were to paint at all hours and be with his family. His story is that of a successful man who would have preferred a bland existence. An extraordinary life with a miserable ending. How was his character forged? Where did his gift come from? What was the Spain that he saw and captured in his paintings like? How did he manage to keep his love for his wife alive since adolescence? César Suárez combines biography, essay and fiction in this book that shows a bold vision of Joaquín Sorolla and his time. A journey through scenes from the artist's life that, perhaps, could serve as inspiration for ours.