Juan Genovés,

Juan Genové, one of Spain’s most celebrated artists and known for his social realist style, died of natural causes on Friday, according to El Pais. He was 89. Over five decades, Genové proved a keen observer of others, often painting crowds from a distance.
Genové was born in 1930 in Valencia, Spain, and grew up amid the Spanish Civil War and subsequent fascist regime of Francisco Franco. The era of oppression proved formative to his artistic practice; one of his most