José Moreno Carbonero (Málaga, March 28, 1858 - Madrid, 1942) was another child prodigy in painting, entering with such only ten years at the School of Fine Arts in Malaga, where he was a pupil of Bernardo Ferrandiz.
From a young age he's traveling the world absorbing the lessons and experiences that inevitably impinged on its work. So in 1873 he moved to Morocco with Ferrándiz himself, where he began to make African-themed paintings in the manner of Mariano Fortuny. Two years later he established in Paris by a grant from the Diputación de Málaga, where he entered the workshop of Jean-Leon Gérôme, French painter academic and Moreno Carbonero capture your love for history painting. These are the years in which the teaching of Raimundo de Madrazo I aimed at one of the topics that will be a constant source in his career: Don Quixote.
In 1881 won gold medal at the National Exhibition the work 'The Prince Carlos de Viana' . The painter had just turned 25, and thanks to that work get a pension of merit to study in Rome, he opts definitively for the coming academic realism practicing until then.
returned to Spain in 1886 with the prestige of being recognized as one of the great academic painters of the era, thanks to his excellent technique and realism of his works. The artist boasts a strong design, a stunning work of documentation, accuracy extraordinary detail and realism to resolve outstanding character, no doubt noting the light palette and atmospheric feel of his paintings.
Famous is the story where to create the scene of the play "input Roger de Flor in Constantinople " (1888), taken outdoors, do not hesitate to put the canvas in the bullring in Málaga then scroll his friends as models.
In 1892 he was appointed professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and in 1898 it's academic. His forays into the genre painting make him a sought-after portraitist of high society at the time, still the favorite of royalty and aristocracy, and getting their history paintings sell at astronomical prices at the time. His major works include, besides the aforementioned, "The Prince of Viana " (1881 ) , "Sancho Meeting Dapple" (1878), " The conversion of the Duke of Gandia "(1884), and" The surrender of Granada "(1882). Much of his painting can be seen in the Museum of Fine Arts in Malaga, which houses more than thirty of his paintings.
José Moreno Carbonero was, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the best painters who had Málaga. His work anticipated the hyper-realism. Is "the past does not exist on artists who left us the legacy of his work, a painter of bold brushstrokes and safe, and a portrait painter. Dedicated, and in the twentieth century, almost entirely to teaching, students had the future great artists, some of whom spent time would be great masters of painting such as Juan Gris and Salvador Dalí.
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