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...

Naked. Normative and Rebellious Nudes in Spanish Art (1870-1970)

The almost ninety works in this exhibition tell a story unbounded by norms, offering a subjective survey designed to stimulate both the mind and the senses of viewers as they explore more than a century of very diverse nudes in Spanish art. In a country with no historical tradition in a genre tha...

Pintura liberada

Some thirty works by more than twenty artists make up this diverse and colourful mosaic of the figurative painting that became a symbol of the new modernity ushered in by Spain’s transition to democracy in the 1980s.

For the main players in this productive period for Spanish conte...