Ramón Casas i Carbó

Ramón Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a Spanish artist🎨.

Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets. Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards🎨 helped to define the Catalan art movement known as Modernisme.