 In 1916 his friend Jose Benlliure Ortiz dies.In 1919 his great friend Joaquín Agrasot dies, too.The "pintura costumbrista" style, that had rooted in the central years of the 19th century and principles of the 20th century, receives new shades with the influence of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in the world of the art, with his novels he gives another perfection of the rural world, different like the vision of the static costumbrism.