Santa Coloma de Farnés (Girona) 1921 - Huesca 2017
By:
Roberto Díaz
José Beulas worked exclusively as a landscape painter. As a child he met painters from the school of Olot (close to his home town), sparking an early interest in painting. In the early 1940s he completed his military service in Huesca. He became enamoured of the local landscape and decide to become a full-time painter. In 1947 he obtained a scholarship from the Provincial Government of Huesca to study under Vázquez Díaz at the San Fernando School of Fine Art in Madrid. In 1955 he won another scholarship to the Spanish Academy in Rome. He stayed in Italy for five years, where he was deeply impressed by Giorgio Morandi and his concept of painting. In 1960 he returned to Madrid, and thereafter he focused his work on landscape, marked by the horizon. In 1969 he decided to move to Huesca. There he painted the fields of the Aragon uplands, the vineyards of Cariñena and the drylands of Los Monegros, synthesizing their essence between the natural and the cultural. The noughties saw a transformation in his work, with strong sunlight flooding the landscape. In the early 1990s, Beulas had decided to donate his art collection to the city of Huesca. He founded the Beulas Art and Nature Centre Foundation, in a building designed by Rafael Moneo and opened in 2006.
His work has been shown at important international events, including the Venice Biennale (1957-1959) and, since the 1960s, in major galleries in Spain and abroad. Beulas won the First Medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition of 1968. In 1988 the Provincial Government of Huesca staged an exhibition of his work and in 1996 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
José Beulas worked exclusively as a landscape painter. As a child he met painters from the school of Olot (close to his home town), sparking an early interest in painting. In the early 1940s he completed his military service in Huesca. He became enamoured of the local landscape and decide to become a full-time painter. In 1947 he obtained a scholarship from the Provincial Government of Huesca to study under Vázquez Díaz at the San Fernando School of Fine Art in Madrid. In 1955 he won another scholarship to the Spanish Academy in Rome. He stayed in Italy for five years, where he was deeply impressed by Giorgio Morandi and his concept of painting. In 1960 he returned to Madrid, and thereafter he focused his work on landscape, marked by the horizon. In 1969 he decided to move to Huesca. There he painted the fields of the Aragon uplands, the vineyards of Cariñena and the drylands of Los Monegros, synthesizing their essence between the natural and the cultural. The noughties saw a transformation in his work, with strong sunlight flooding the landscape. In the early 1990s, Beulas had decided to donate his art collection to the city of Huesca. He founded the Beulas Art and Nature Centre Foundation, in a building designed by Rafael Moneo and opened in 2006.
His work has been shown at important international events, including the Venice Biennale (1957-1959) and, since the 1960s, in major galleries in Spain and abroad. Beulas won the First Medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition of 1968. In 1988 the Provincial Government of Huesca staged an exhibition of his work and in 1996 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.