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...

Courbet, Van Gogh, Monet, Léger. From naturalist Landscape to the Avant-gardes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Obra Social “la Caixa”, offers a survey of landscape painting from the triumph of naturalism to the mid-20th century through a selection of works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection.

Divided into five sections, ...

The appearance of the real. Fifty years of realist art in Spain (1960–2010)

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Over the course of history, many artists have addressed the same challenge with different aims: to capture i...