1. Urbano Lugrís
Painter of the sea

2. URBANO LUGRÍS
GONZÁLEZ
• Urbano Lugrís was born in A Coruña in 1908.
• His father was a writer and his mother was a pianist.
• He lived in A Coruña, Madrid and Vigo.
• He studied business in a Coruña.
• He founded the magazine Atlántida and wrote poetry
and articles as Ulises Fingal and draw several
illustrations.
• He loved the sea and he made lots of
• beautiful pictures
• In 1956 he moved to Vigo.

3. Sargasso Sea:
Prow figurehead and ships on a harbour.

4. Lough with an angel fish
• The darkness of
the rock and the
lightness of the
water.
• A tropical angel
fish, black and
white, a shell, a
limpet and some
seaweed.

5. Gellyfish
• A light gellyfish
swimming across the
sea.
• A schoolfish of
sardines are
swimming towards
the background.
• There’s a dark rock
with two limpets and
some seaweed.

6. • Lugrís painted
several sea legends. Sea legends
• This painting
represents a
fantastic vision of
the sea under a
moonlight, a huge
fish with a
horn, a church and a
monk on it.
A ship is leaving and
a little seahorse is
on a rock.

7. His original still-lifes have shells, coral, seahorses,
conches…
Even these paintings represent his love for the
seaworld.

8. The old sailor’s room.
Are they the same room?
Find the differences.

9. • Where’s it going? A ship in the distance,
under the moonlight, in a quiet night.
• San Telmo fires: a strange electric effect that
occurs on the poles of the ships when it’s stormy
weather.

10. Submerged temple
• A dream, a tragedy, a
legend…
• A sunk ship on the
background and an
old temple under
water.
• Seaweed, gellyfish,
schoolfish and shells
are under these quiet
waters.

11. A mural: MAP OF GALICIA
• In this picture you
can see the main
cities of Galicia
represented by
symbols, and in the
sea there are
legend creatures,
monsters, ships,
islands, the rose of
the winds…

12. You can see his seascapes murals
in Malpica, A Coruña and Vigo

13. Murals and poetry
The Sailor’s House of Malpica, 1951
No xardín do fondo mar, durmen os sonos
antigos, no berce mol do craro luar.
En tempos, os fortes homes de Malpica
cazaban a balea por lonxanos mares.
Mar dos avós, dos fillos e dos netos, danos
decote a mantenza da túa entraña.
Norte, Sul, Este, Oeste, cantan na rosa
dos ventos, a verde ribeirana do mar.

14. More murals:
two religious triptichs
and
the rose of the winds

15. Son meus amores máxicos

16. Tribute to the musicians and
poets of the sea.
1973

17. Blackboard.
1961
• Can you find any school things in this picture?
• What animals are there in this seascape?
• Can you guess the name of the islands on the
background?
• Is this landscape real or fantastic?

18. Island • The sunlight
comes through
a white cloud,
and reflects on
the sea.
• Two ships are
going to the
island, and we
are watching
them sitting on
the beach.

19. His paintings are used as
logotypes, covers of books, CDs…

20. • Urbano Lugrís painted beautiful pictures and fantastic
murals. Some of them are still now where he painted
them.
• Many others were destroyed in the buildings
refurbishments.
• You can see his murals in A Coruña, Vigo and Malpica.
• His pictures are in different Galician museums
(Quiñones de león, in Vigo, Museo Provincial in A
Coruña, Museo de Bueu) and in particular collections.
• He never studied Fine Arts, but he is one of the greatest
painters from Galicia.
• He died in Vigo 1973.

21. Internet addresses
• http://es.geocities.com/ies_urbano_lugris/lugris/expo/
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/urbano_lugris
• http://www.culturagalega.org
• http://www.fundacioncaixagalicia.org/
• Daniela Martínez Somoza. May, 2008