Les il·lustracions de Lluís Bonnín a les revistes del tombant del segle xix

• Autores: Irene Gras Valero
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 37, 2023, págs. 33-56
• Idioma: catalán
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  • This paper is devoted to Catalan artist Lluís Bonnín’s contribution as illustrator in several of the most important journals of his time. Previously unpublished examples are presented for the first time, as a result of exhaustive researches on this kind of material. Besides filling a significant historiographic gap in the artist’s production, the analysis of Bonnín’s work brings forward a number of broader issues. First, the aesthetic trends and the iconographic motifs in Bonnín’s illustrations are examined, and his influences identified. Likewise, the formal features and contents of his most personal and original works are defined: we argue that they mostly mirror Symbolist trends. Second, the ideologies shaping Bonnín’s work are examined and set in the cultural context of the time. Third, this investigation stresses Bonnín’s importance in the artistic landscape of Catalan Modernism, by means of a thorough evaluation of his production, going well beyond his most known and studied work, namely his illustrations for Josep Maria Roviralta’s Boires baixes (1902).