The exhibition concludes with the rebirth of the avant-garde movements, with their desire to renew art, particularly in the post-war period. The urban landscape became of particular interest to many painters, including Celso Lagar whose lengthy period in Paris allowed him to make contact with the leading avant-garde artists and to cultivate a pictorial idiom close to Cubism, which he termed “planism”. This interest in the urban world is in turn related to the attraction that a series of painters felt for modern life and industrial development. Among them was Fernand Léger who was trained in the principles of Cubism. In order to represent the beauty of machines Léger made use of flat, geometrical forms that stand out through chromatic contrast. Landscape was in turn closely linked to the Surrealist movement, a context that gave rise to the artists of a subsequent generation such as Modest Cuixart, who belonged to the Dau al Set group, and Antoni Clavé, both of whom are represented here.