Museo Carmen Thyssen

Juana Francés. Intimate retrospective (1957-1985)

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with the MACA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, presents in Malaga the work of one of the most outstanding Spanish women artists of the second half of the twentieth century: Juana Francés (Alicante, 1924−Madrid, 1990). The Al...

Zurbarán. Saints

During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spani...

Real(isms). New Figurative Trends in Spanish Art from 1918 to 1936

This exhibition takes an extensive look at a chronologically short but creatively intense period in which the first truly determined drive towards artistic renewal (and even the avant-garde) and a break with nineteenth-century art emerged in Spain in the form of a realist figurative art.

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