End of the century, Carmen Thyssen Museum

End of the century, which reveals how the Spanish painting of the late nineteenth century began to openly dialogue with international painting. Joaquín Sorolla , Aureliano de Beruete , Darío de Regoyos , Ramón Casas , Ricard Canals , Francisco Iturrino or José Gutiérrez Solana are some of its exponents. Special mention in this period deserves Ignacio Zuloaga and Julio Romero de Torres.

It was the fin-de-siècle artists who took the definitive step towards the renewal of Spanish painting. Painters such as Regoyos, Casas, Sorolla and Iturrino were responsible for the emergence of this new approach in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, laying the foundations for modern art and the avant-garde with regard to pictorial technique, subject-matter and the achievement of creative freedom.

The turbulent period of the fin-de-siecle led up th the brith of mondern art nad Spanish painting cast a direct gaze on international painting, Artists abandoned forms and models of the past in order to create new ones that would lay the ground for future developments.

Dario de Regpvps was one of the first Spanish artists to occupy na established posit on within the international avant garde. His painting represents a link between a modern approach and the use of traditionally Spanish subject matter.

The rethinking and updating of landscape painting came about firstly through the work of Aureliano de Beruete, who was notably influenced by the ideas emerging from the Free Teaching Institute, and secondly through the Valencian school. With regard to the latter, the work of Joaquin Sorolla represents the most overt aspiration towards a modern, luminous and optimistic style within Spanish painting.

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As the quintessentially Romantic country, Spain had been transformed into one of the most popular artistic and literary cliches of the second half of the 19th century. Europe was avid for “Spanish” subjects and young Spanish artists modernised their own paintings in a response to the gaze of outsiders. The painters who achieved the greatest success in Paris were the ones whos most overtly contributed to the formulation of Spain seen as “dufferent”, expressed in works ranging from the pleasingly decorative gypsies of Hermen Anglada i Camarasa and Iturrino, the tragic and erotic Andalusian women painted by Julio Romero de Torres, and the iconic figures of Ignacio Zuloaga.

Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga
The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of Carmen Cervera, third wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Carmen Thyssen Museum are a museum dedicated to conservation, research and the dissemination of the Carmen Thyssen Collection in order to emphasize the value of Spanish painting, especially that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fully referenced in its historical and artistic context, for the understanding of all audiences, which forms part of Malaga’s strategy as a cultural city.

Carmen Thyssen Museum aim to become an international benchmark for our contribution to nineteenth century art in Spain, through the conservation of our Permanent Collection and temporary exhibitions that facilitate their interpretation. In addition, for our emphasis on the value of the Roman archaeological site, for our dynamic cross-cutting programme of cultural and educational activities dedicated especially to younger audiences, and for an approach that is always open to collaboration with other cultural and social institutions.

Furthermore, for our model of museum management focused on the commitment to better service to our different stakeholders, as well as the incorporation of new technologies, and a comprehensive vision of the space, from a design perspective, incorporating complementary uses and comfort. The gallery offers more virtual exhibitions that can be viewed for free on its website. Note that these virtual exhibit needs to allow the Falsh plugin.

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