Joaquín Clausell 🎨🖌🖼

Joaquín Clausell, Mexico’s greatest Impressionist painter, led one of art history’s most unlikely double lives — firebrand lawyer and lyrical landscape artist. Born in Campeche in 1866, self-taught and often penniless, he brought Impressionism home from Paris after encounters with Monet and Pissarro, transforming Mexico’s canals, forests, and coastlines into shimmering colour. Discover his turbulent biography, a critical analysis of his three major works — now housed at MUNAL in Mexico City — and his lasting legacy alongside Diego Rivera and Dr. Atl. Continue reading Joaquín Clausell 🎨🖌🖼