Temporary Exhibition
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From July 28, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity
This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predominant in commedia dell’arte characters, masks began to be associated with the grotesque and death in the...
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![Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]](/uploads/exposiciones/cropped/9235e45d3176e00bd532666cc0c0ac215da424e1.jpg "Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]")
From October 02, 2020 to January 17, 2021
Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]
An essential device in artistic training and painters’ and sculptors’ creative processes, in the twentieth century drawing came to be viewed as a form of artistic expression in its own right, independent of academic practices or preparatory sketches. Artists of various disciplines, then open to varied and bold experimentation in ...
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Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus
In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances lik...
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Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)
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European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many artists, especially French and Spanish, to travel to Morocco, Al... -
Fortuny the printmaker
Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to exploring the expressive possibilities of printmaking – chiefly etc...