Rusiñol was an active part of his time's culture and enriched it with his personality, ideas, and opinions, which he strongly defended, even with controversy or polemic. He was also part of the famous social gatherings of the Els Quatre Gats brewery on Carrer de Montsió in Barcelona run by Pere Romeu. Inspired by Le Chat Noir that they had known in Paris, it became the privileged setting for the ideological demonstrations of the turn of the century, a place of social gathering and an alternative art room. A good friend of his friends, he was associated with the most prominent artistic and intellectual personalities of the time, such as writers Monsignor Cinto Verdaguer and Pompeu Fabra, Valle-Inclán and Benito Pérez Galdós, the musicians Enric Granados, Isaac Albéniz, Enric Morera, Erik Satie and Manuel de Falla, and painters such as Darío de Regoyos, Ignacio Zuloaga and Joaquim Mir, among many others. However, he had the longest and strongest friendship with the painter Ramon Casas and the sculptor Enric Clarasó, with whom he formed an artistic trio that lasted until his death.