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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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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 ass...
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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...