Curators’ tour at the exhibition “España Blanca y Negra. Vision of Spain from Fortuny to Picasso”
The tour is lead by curators Aleksandra Murre & Carlos Alonso.
Landscape painting was an almost unknown genre in Spanish art until the 19th century, when questions regarding the Spanish identity and national image arose. As the country underwent modernisation, the two opposing approaches to conveying the image of Spain collided: the idea of a bright and buoyant “white” Spain and the idea of a dark and grave “black” Spain that drew on the deepest layers of the cultural heritage. Between and alongside these two opposites, Catalan modernist painting began to flourish at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, combining the picturesqueness and colour sensitivity of white Spain and the intellectuality of black Spain.
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