Tuskellas Miguel

Miguel Tuskellas was the son of a sculptor, who gave his son his first lessons in the craft. Miguel later entered the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, where the painter José Ruiz Blasco, the father of the future world celebrity Pablo Picasso, taught. Tuskellas won a silver medal in a drawing competition, and thanks to his success in painting, he received a scholarship that allowed him to make his first trip to the cities of his native Spain. In 1906, following his fellow countryman Picasso, the young artist moved to France. Continuing to improve in his artistic craft, he copied paintings in the Louvre. Until the outbreak of the First World War, Tuskellas collaborated with the Parisian atelier Carpezat et Simas, where, among other masters, he worked on the interior design of the Grand Opera and the Comédie Française. The artist purposefully studied the technology of creating frescoes. The cement plates or canvases covered with lime and sand he used in large works led Tuskellas to the general subduedness of oil painting, the unity of tone, and the construction of rhythms with simple lines. Tuskellas's chamber works written en plein air are known. Died in northern France.