These beautiful paintings were created by Spanish artist Santiago Rusiñol. Rusiñol was a Spanish  Catalan  post-impressionist/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.  As a charismatic leader of Catalan Modernism and a founder of Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona, Rusiñol traveled widely and stayed often in Paris, having exhibited at the Paris Salon. It was in here that Rusiñol came into contact with Edgar Degas and James Abbot McNeil Whistler, whose work had a particular influence on his own. Notwithstanding his position as a leading member of the international avant-garde, however, it was in Spain, away from the clamor of the Parisian metropolis, that he was able to explore the full range of his resonant palette and where many of his most powerful and evocative works were completed. It was in 1895, during a visit to Granada, that Rusiñol first discovered the beauty of landscape gardens, which henceforth became central to his oeuvre. He has also been credited as an influential figure to Pablo Picasso as a modern artist.

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