Joaquín Clausell

Joaquín Clausell (1866-1919) was a Mexican artist known for pioneering impressionism in Mexico through his landscape and still life paintings. Clausell was born in Mérida, Yucatán and moved to Mexico City at the age of 20 to study at the Academy of San Carlos, where he learned from prominent Mexican artists such as José María Velasco and Saturnino Herrán.

Clausell's work is characterized by his use of light and color, particularly in his landscape paintings. The imagery he depicted often fell into 3 catagories: depictions of landscapes, mountains and forrests, depictions of lagoons, waterfalls, and coaslines, and depictions of various images including flowers, people, and animals.

Clausell was a member of the Mexican Academy of Fine Arts and was considered one of Mexico's leading landscape painters of his time. Now his work can be found major museums in Mexico and around the world, including the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

He died in Mexico City in 1919, but his legacy as one of the most important Mexican painters of the late 19th and early 20th century lives on through his works.

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