Agreda

Agreda (in the province of Soria in Castilla y León, central Spain) stands in the centre of the canvas with its characteristic Castillo Muela tower and on the right the church of Santa Maria. But the mountains in the background and all the hills surrounding Agreda seem to be the real subject of the work.

Although blue is used for the sky at the top of the canvas and on some of the houses, it is the palette of warm colours that largely dominates: yellows, ochres, oranges, pinks, reds and browns are used by the artist to model the shapes of the terrain, whether it is in light or in shadow.

The succession of brushstrokes, almost abstracted as the landscape is viewed, plays with shapes and colours to seduce us and make us take the time to walk through it, like the peasant and his donkey on the right of the canvas.