Museo Carmen Thyssen

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced history.

In the arts, fascination for those majestic unex...

Telluric and primitive

The earth and a primordial language of signs and basic forms – or, as we have defined it in this exhibition, the telluric (terrestrial or geological) and the primitive (primordial) – offered two paths of renewal starting from the very first episode in modern Spanish art (the 1920s and...

Belgian art. From Impressionism to Magritte. Musée d’Ixelles

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From realism to the modern landscape

Through more than seventy works from the Musée d’Ixelles in Brussels, this exhibition provides a comprehensive and unique overview of the main trends in Belgian ...