{"id":75044,"date":"2016-10-13T15:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=75044"},"modified":"2020-07-16T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:52:43","slug":"costa-brava-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/costa-brava-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The artistic side of Costa Brava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When hearing about<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Brava\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Costa Brava<\/a><\/strong>, the common tourist will imagine a small <strong>paradise<\/strong> on the coast of Barcelona. But <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> is more than <strong>great<\/strong> <strong>beaches\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>relaxing<\/strong> <strong>landscapes:<\/strong>\u00a0it was, and still is, the chosen <strong>escape<\/strong> for <strong>artists<\/strong> from all over the world to reconnect with themselves and with their work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Ticketbar-Widget\" data-widget-guid=\"62a278bc-ba81-4d68-afa3-50d0704564b5\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/costa-brava-2\/#Why_is_Costa_Brava_an_Inspiration\" title=\"Why is Costa Brava an Inspiration?\">Why is Costa Brava an Inspiration?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/costa-brava-2\/#The_artistic_heritage\" title=\"The artistic heritage\">The artistic heritage<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_Costa_Brava_an_Inspiration\"><\/span>Why is Costa Brava an Inspiration?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_75049\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75049\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Photo-via-Visualhunt.com_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo via Visualhunt.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Visualhunt.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The history books teach us about the <strong>great<\/strong> <strong>artists<\/strong> that were born or made in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> but, over time, we have learned that <strong>Costa<\/strong> <strong>Brava<\/strong> was also part to &#8220;blame&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the Spanish Civil War, <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> started to rise as a tourist attraction mainly for its beaches. But artists discovered that it was more than that and it became a <strong>gateway<\/strong> for <strong>epiphanies<\/strong>, <strong>spiritual<\/strong> <strong>cleansing<\/strong> and simply a <strong>moment<\/strong> of <strong>isolation<\/strong> that would allow them to run away from the city noise and communicate with their work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/beach-costa-brava\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Have a beach day on the Costa Brava<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_artistic_heritage\"><\/span>The artistic heritage<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_75048\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75048\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Photo-by-Arturo-Espinosa-via-VisualHunt-CC-BY-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: Arturo Espinosa via VisualHunt : CC BY\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: Arturo Espinosa via VisualHunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s no secret that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picasso.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Pablo<\/strong> <strong>Picasso<\/strong><\/a> was inspired by his hometown.\u00a0You can always visit the <strong>Picasso museum in <\/strong>Barcelona and from there get to know the artist&#8217;s life and work, but it was while staying in <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> that, inspired by nature, his painting and sculptures entered the &#8220;blue period&#8221;. <strong>Picasso<\/strong> stayed in <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong>\u00a0for about 9 months until 1899\u00a0and then returned to stay for almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedali.org\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a>, has <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> in his blood and the cliffs imprinted in his <strong>surrealist<\/strong> <strong>art<\/strong>. One of <strong>Dali\u2019s<\/strong> goals was to free repressed desires with plastic art, drawing and painting his dream\u00a0landscapes,\u00a0which often featured <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> scenarios. Even in his most surreal compositions, we are able to find the cliffs and the lines of the beaches drawn behind the disproportional hands, half bodies and melting clocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another world renowned artist inspired by <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> was <strong>Joan<\/strong> <strong>Mir\u00f3<\/strong>. Born in Barcelona, Mir\u00f3 wasn\u2019t a stranger to <strong>Costa Brava<\/strong> where he would travel often to clear is mind and create works that would explore the subconscious part of his\u00a0mind, culminating in the <strong>symbolic<\/strong> and <strong>methodical<\/strong> process always present in his art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Looking for a new apartment? 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