# Boys on the beach [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOROLLA Y BASTIDA, Joaquín]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 118 x 185 cm ## Commentary With broad brushstrokes full of brilliant colours, incomparable freedom, energy, and spontaneity, Sorolla transferred to canvas the effects of the sun striking the wet skin of children. Representing life on the sunny beaches that he loved so much, Sorolla strove to capture the fugitive impressions produced by the sun, which he studied in a profusion of drawings, notes, and sketches, as well as in his larger-format paintings. Since Sorolla always sought to transmit the effects of sunlight in his work and achieved it with ease, he has been considered "impressionist" or "post-impressionist". However, he refused to be called that. Although he painted the moment that came to his eyes, he maintained a realism that turned out to be of a very personal style. He is also classified as a "luminist." It is a term that can be seen rightly applied to the famous painter of light. ## Related artworks - [Eating on the Boat \(detail\)]() - [Eating on the Boat]() - [Elena and Maria in Old-Fashioned Valencian Costume]() - [Kissing the Relic]() - [Portrait of Alfonso XIII in the Uniform of a Hussar]() - [Portrait of Aureliano Beruete the Elder]() - [Portrait of the Wife of Aureliano Beruete the Elder]() - [Return from Fishing]() - [Selling the Catch at Valencia]() - [The Beach at Valencia]() - [Waiting for the Catch, Valencia Beach]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()