Artists' posters
From Toulouse-Lautrec to Jeff Koons
(03 October 2015 - 21 February 2016)
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Contemporary artists’ conquest of creative freedom in a conflict-ridden historical context spurred the development, among other types, of an art associated with a certain ideological and political commitment as opposed to concerned solely with aesthetic and formal aspects. This communicative dimension often had critical, vindicatory or subversive components linked to the major events of the twentieth century, such as the two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, May ’68, apartheid and other global social causes like environmentalism or the achievement of freedoms.
This section illustrates how all these themes were handled in poster art, with works by Malévich, Miró, Picasso, Calder and Haring, among others.