Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

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...

Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Modern Art (1880–1950)

From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period – from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s – when their representation in art underwent a paradigm shift as a reflection of the social situation of the time. ...