Person
Ramon Casas
Spanish artist
Ramon Casas i Carbó (January 4, 1866 – February 29, 1932) is a Spanish artist.
Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he is known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond.
He is also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets (El garrot).
Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards help to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.[