What immediately strikes us when first looking at this painting is undoubtedly the expressive use of colour and the artist’s evident leaning towards the Fauvist movement.

Villà dealt with the subject matters of traditional painting with a vigour, vitality and conviction unusual in the Catalan painting of his time. His realistic and passionate approach to nature lent his creation a whole new poetic.

Landscape was a recurrent genre in Villà’s practice. Huerta, Puebla de Segur is rendered with highly detailed and concentrated brushwork, heavily laden with material and rather thick, used to create the construction we see in the horizon and the trees placed almost immediately in front of them. The result is the quasi-tactile character of the nature that fills the painting. In spite of the absence of human figures, the work as a whole exudes a sense of vitality.

Villà’s painting is passionate and forceful, reminiscent of Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) in its daring use of colour, but also of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in its compositional tenacity. However, notwithstanding the similarities, Villà is an artist with a unique style, removed from all isms, with a style of painting that, although spontaneous, is full of lyricism and elegance.