Albert Clota i Gras was born in 1928, in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Between the years 42 and 47 he follows drawing and painting studies at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis of Barcelona, under professor Manzanilla's tutorial. He also assisted M. Margaix's workshop, a professor of modelling and moulding. To complete his training he attended for many years to V. Navarro and R. de Capmany's individual classes.
In 1946, he began his professional activities in the field of decorative painting, by specializing in silver-plated murals and oil techniques. That same year he took part, for the first time, in the V Exhibition of Gracienc Artists (from the urban district of Gracia, in Barcelona), an event he will later on attend to, several times.
In the fifties he starts a long succession of travels and personal exhibitions that he alternates, every now and then, with some collective art exhibitions.
His great drawing skills show up in his works where line prevails over colour, although this does not prevent him from following different chromatic possibilities, looking for shadows, chiaroscuro (use of light and shade to create dramatic effects) and ambiance blends.
Clota, an expert in representing water, prefers the humid marshlands and the transparent ponds after the storm, to paint rainy days, a water course or its immobility, the ever-present tree or the crepuscular hours...
Analyzing the surface of his paintings we receive a placid and peaceful sensation, but if we plunge any further into them, we shall then experience a sharp feeling of noble longing.
Albert Clota's work, other than appearing in several public collections and private entities, also appears in several collections of the Peninsula ( Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo, Gijón, Vitòria...) and of some foreign cities such as Rome, Milan, London, Tokyo and Miami.
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