{"id":21486,"date":"2020-07-09T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=21486"},"modified":"2020-07-09T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T11:21:52","slug":"gaspar-homar-amateur-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/gaspar-homar-amateur-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaspar Homar, amateur photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mari\u00e0ngels Fondevila<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-Gasmar-Homar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-Gasmar-Homar.jpg\" alt=\"Self-portrait of Gaspar Homar, c. 1909, Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya\" class=\"wp-image-21439\" width=\"264\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-Gasmar-Homar.jpg 357w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-Gasmar-Homar-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Self-portrait of Gaspar Homar, <em>c.<\/em> 1909, Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a good <em>Modernista<\/em>, following in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Morris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Morris<\/a>, <strong>Gaspar Homar was a many-faceted artist; he made furniture, metal objects, mosaics, textiles, marquetry, drawings, he was an antiques dealer and also an amateur photographer<\/strong>. This is confirmed by the recent admission to the Museu Nacional of a collection comprising nearly 68 crates of autochrome glass plates and three boxes of negatives, measuring 6 x 13 cm. This set enriches the Homar collection composed of more than 200 decorative artworks. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21442\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21442\" class=\"wp-image-21442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar.-Port-de-Barcelona-C.-1909-MNAC-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21441\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21441\" class=\"wp-image-21441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Mallorca-c.-1909-MNAC-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Gaspar Homar. Port of Barcelona, c. 1909 \/ Gaspar Homar, Mallorca, c. 1909, Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The donation of Gaspar Homar\u2019s photographic material to the Museu Nacional<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>During preparations for the Gaspar Homar exhibition <strong>this photographic<\/strong> <strong>material was found <\/strong>in a dusty wardrobein his summer residence in Montgat, where the furniture maker spent much of the last period of his life. Years later, his grandson has donated it to the museum. This material includes <strong>autochrome plates, the forerunner of colour photography<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21444\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21444\" class=\"wp-image-21444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-mnac-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21445\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21445\" class=\"wp-image-21445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-MNAC-1-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Gaspar Homar, circa 1909, Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dyed potato starch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1907 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Lumi\u00e8re brothers<\/a> very successfully marketed \u201cLumi\u00e8re Autochrome\u201d a novelty that was presented in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona to a group of aficionados. Gaspar Homar was attracted by this new colour technique although he did not always master the technical process. To capture colour, this process made use of glass plates with microscopic particles of potato starch on the base of black-and-white film. The grains were dyed red-orange, green and blue-violet, acting as colour filters, and after the plate was processed the complementary colours emerged. <strong>For viewing purposes, autochrome plates could only be enjoyed by projecting them through very bright light<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21450\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21450\" class=\"wp-image-21450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Laberint-d\u2019Horta-c.1909-MNAC-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21449\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21449\" class=\"wp-image-21449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Amatller-fotografia-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Gaspar Homar, The Horta maze, c. 1909 \/ Gaspar Homar, Almond tree, C. 1909, Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentation at the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 1909, as reported in <em>La<\/em> <em>Vanguardia<\/em>, Homar presented his photographs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cec.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centre Excursionista de Catalunya<\/a><em>.<\/em> This association organized <strong>a session of luminous projections of colour photographs by the Majorcan artist<\/strong>. It was the first time that this new technique had been presented, a novelty that, we must remember, was embraced by the great photographers of the time, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Steichen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steichen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Stieglitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stieglitz<\/a>, the photographers of the National Geographic Society, scientists like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santiago_Ram%C3%B3n_y_Cajal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ramon y Cajal<\/a> around 1911, the writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonid_Andreyev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leonid Andreiev<\/a> and, above all, the philanthropist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Kahn_(banker)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albert Kahn<\/a>. After 1909 <strong>Kahn got together a team of photographers who travelled the world taking colour photographs <\/strong>and he created <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Archives de la Plan\u00e8te<\/a>, and he also obtained permission to immortalize the Great War in Europe. This collection of nearly 72,000 autochrome plates is conserved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mus\u00e9e Albert-Khan<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Infiniment-Indes-Mus\u00e9e-Albert-Khan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Infiniment-Indes-Mus\u00e9e-Albert-Khan.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21454\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Infiniment-Indes-Mus\u00e9e-Albert-Khan.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21454\" class=\"wp-image-21454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Infiniment-Indes-Mus\u00e9e-Albert-Khan.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Infiniment-Indes-Mus\u00e9e-Albert-Khan-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfred-Stieglitz-Selma-Schubartz-1907-Metropolitan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfred-Stieglitz-Selma-Schubartz-1907-Metropolitan.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21453\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfred-Stieglitz-Selma-Schubartz-1907-Metropolitan.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21453\" class=\"wp-image-21453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfred-Stieglitz-Selma-Schubartz-1907-Metropolitan.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfred-Stieglitz-Selma-Schubartz-1907-Metropolitan-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em>Infiniment Indes<\/em>, Mus\u00e9e Albert-Khan. \/ Alfred Stieglitz, Selma Schubartz, 1907, Metropolitan <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Una-florista-a-la-Rambla-National-Geographic-1929.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Una-florista-a-la-Rambla-National-Geographic-1929.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21460\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Una-florista-a-la-Rambla-National-Geographic-1929.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21460\" class=\"wp-image-21460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Una-florista-a-la-Rambla-National-Geographic-1929.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Una-florista-a-la-Rambla-National-Geographic-1929-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agrupaci\u00f3-fotogr\u00e0fica-de-Catalunya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agrupaci\u00f3-fotogr\u00e0fica-de-Catalunya.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21459\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agrupaci\u00f3-fotogr\u00e0fica-de-Catalunya.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21459\" class=\"wp-image-21459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agrupaci\u00f3-fotogr\u00e0fica-de-Catalunya.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Agrupaci\u00f3-fotogr\u00e0fica-de-Catalunya-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em><br \/>A florist in the Rambla<\/em>, National Geographic, 1929 \/ Agrupaci\u00f3 fotogr\u00e0fica de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Series of miscellaneous photographs: medieval heritage, cities and monuments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This photographic material admitted to the museum clearly shows <strong>Gaspar Homar\u2019s interest in art and medieval heritage<\/strong>, with series dedicated to the collections of the Museums of Vic, Solsona and Barcelona, churches, and medieval paintings in Terrassa. Remember that <strong>Homar was one of the actors who took part, in the front line, in the discovery and the valorization of medieval heritage<\/strong>. He opened an antiques shop in Carrer de la Palla and through his hands passed, among others, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museunacional.cat\/en\/colleccio\/altar-frontal-avia\/anonim\/015784-000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altar frontal from Avi\u00e0<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museunacional.cat\/en\/colleccio\/altar-frontal-esterri-de-cardos\/anonim-catalunya-taller-de-la-seu-durgell-del-1200\/015889-000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altar frontal from Ginestarre de Card\u00f3s<\/a>, Coptic fabrics, paintings and ceramic pieces that now enrich the collections of museums, from the Cloisters in New York to the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya. He even embarked upon a commercial venture, selling antiques, in the sculptor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julio_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(sculptor)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juli Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>\u2019s shop in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-cer\u00e0mica.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21463\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-cer\u00e0mica.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21463\" class=\"wp-image-21463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-cer\u00e0mica.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-cer\u00e0mica-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-cer\u00e0mica-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-esgl\u00e9sia-de-terrassa.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21464\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-esgl\u00e9sia-de-terrassa.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21464\" class=\"wp-image-21464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-esgl\u00e9sia-de-terrassa.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-esgl\u00e9sia-de-terrassa-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-esgl\u00e9sia-de-terrassa-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-patrimoni-medieval.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21465\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-patrimoni-medieval.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21465\" class=\"wp-image-21465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-patrimoni-medieval.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-patrimoni-medieval-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/gaspar-homar-patrimoni-medieval-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Gaspar Homar, Series dedicated to medieval heritage, fragments of altarpieces, ceramics, churches in Terrassa c. 1909. Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also <strong>views of cities and artistic<\/strong> <strong>monuments <\/strong>in Granada, Seville, Burgos and Cardona, or scenic views of the Costa Brava, Alella and Tiana, among others. Worthy of mention are the <strong>urban views of<\/strong> <strong>Barcelona, such as the Port of Barcelona, or Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Park G\u00fcell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21469\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21469\" class=\"wp-image-21469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Escalinata-del-Parc-Guell-c.-1909-MNAC-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"21468\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?attachment_id=21468\" class=\"wp-image-21468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-La-casa-dels-guardes-del-Parc-Guell-c.1909-MNAC-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Gaspar Homar, Staircase in Park G\u00fcell, c. 1909 \/ Gaspar Homar, The warden\u2019s house in Park G\u00fcell, c.1909, Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is usual in this new medium<strong>, there are numerous series dedicated to the world of floriculture, such as mimosas, carnations, olive trees and almond trees.<\/strong> &nbsp;Like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren%C3%A9_Lalique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ren\u00e9 Lalique<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89mile_Gall%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emile Gall\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eug%C3%A8ne_Grasset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eug\u00e8ne Grasset<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Crane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Walter Crane<\/a>, Homar sought his source of inspiration in nature. A good example of this is the set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museunacional.cat\/en\/lleo-morera-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">furniture from Casa Lle\u00f3 Morera<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-Museu-Nacional.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-Museu-Nacional.jpg\" alt=\"Gaspar Homar, c. 1909. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya\" class=\"wp-image-21471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-Museu-Nacional.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-C.-1909-Museu-Nacional-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gaspar Homar, c. 1909. Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His family also appears,<strong> for instance his mother Margalida, or figures and landscapes in his native Mallorca<\/strong>: Orient, Bunyola, Raixa, Manacor and the rugged landscape of the Torrent de Pareis, painted by Joaquim Mir, whose paintings were exhibited in Gaspar Homar\u2019s shop in Carrer Canuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Torrent-de-Pareis-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Torrent-de-Pareis-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg\" alt=\"Gaspar Homar, Torrent de Pareis, c. 1909, Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya\" class=\"wp-image-21473\" width=\"340\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Torrent-de-Pareis-C.-1909-MNAC.jpg 434w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gaspar-Homar-Torrent-de-Pareis-C.-1909-MNAC-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gaspar Homar, <em>Torrent de Pareis<\/em>, c. 1909, Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Gaspar Homar collection illustrates his artistic trials with the autochrome colour photographic medium, a fragile process of photographic reproduction (it was taken off the market in the 1930s), which has been vindicated in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-de-Gaspar-Homar-col\u00b7lecci\u00f3-particular.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-de-Gaspar-Homar-col\u00b7lecci\u00f3-particular.jpg\" alt=\"Self-portrait of Gaspar Homar, private collection\" class=\"wp-image-21474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-de-Gaspar-Homar-col\u00b7lecci\u00f3-particular.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/Autoretrat-de-Gaspar-Homar-col\u00b7lecci\u00f3-particular-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Self-portrait of Gaspar Homar, private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.museunacional.cat\/en\/advanced-piece-search?title_1=gaspar+homar&amp;title=&amp;field_piece_inventory_number_value=&amp;keys=\" target=\"_blank\">Gaspar Homar in the collections of Museu Nacional<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mari\u00e0ngels Fondevila As a good Modernista, following in the footsteps of William Morris, Gaspar Homar was a many-faceted artist; he made furniture, metal objects, mosaics, textiles, marquetry, drawings, he was an antiques dealer and also an amateur photographer. 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