Joan Hernández Pijuan

Joan Hernández Pijuan (Barcelona 1931-2005) is a Catalan painter whose initial work shows an expressionist style, evolving into a language and a magical atmosphere, transmitted for solitary elements (fruit, glasses, eggs, etc.) and mathematics on backgrounds and fields plain gray and green. He studied at the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts and at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts. In 1956, together with Carles Planell, Eduard Alcoy y Lázaro and Josep Maria Rovira y Requesón, he founded the "Silex Group". He moved to Paris the following year to study engraving and lithography at the School of Fine Arts in the French capital. If geometric figuration is the prevailing style of that period, his stay in France allowed the artist to come into contact with informalism, to which he would return during the 1980s. Since 1977 Pijuan has combined painting with work as a teacher at the School of Fine Arts de Sant Jordi in Barcelona, he directed seminars at the Eina School in Barcelona and from 1980 he was part of the activities committee of the Miró Foundation.