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Impressionism and Spanish Art

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Impressionism and Spanish Art

Exhibition Type
Art
Area Size
200 to 500 sqm
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2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
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Exhibition Partners
Curator: Dr. Francesc Fontbona de Vallescar. Lenders: Museu Nacional dā€™Art de Catalunya, Museu de Montserrat, Biblioteca Museu VĆ­ctor Balaguer, Museo Carmen Thyssen MĆ”laga, Museo Ignacio Zuloaga Castillo de Pedraza, Museu dā€™HistĆ²ria de Girona, Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Museo de Santa Cruz, MUHBA Museu dā€™HistĆ²ria de Barcelona, Museu de la Garrotxa, Museu del Modernisme de Barcelona, Museu de la MĆŗsica de Barcelona ā€“ Lā€™Auditori, Museu dā€™Art Modern de Tarragona, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

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Taking into account that people usually use sweeping generalizations when talking about Spanish Impressionism, this exhibition centers on the relationship between this pictorial style and Spanish art. The show consists of works by the following artists: Pere Vidal de Solares, MariĆ  Fortuny, Adolfo Guiard, Ramon Casas, Santiago RusiƱol, DarĆ­o de Regoyos, Eliseu MeifrĆØn, Aureliano de Beruete, Ignacio Zuloaga, Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, JoaquĆ­n Sorolla, Ricard Canals, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Mir, Marian Pidelaserra, Pere Ysern, Ignasi Mallol and Ricard GuinĆ³.

The exhibition includes sixty one works, which belong to different museums and private collections.

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Ɖdouard Manet, the main exponent of Impressionism, admired Goya and used Spanish motifs in some of his most significant works. However, Spanish painters of the second half of the 19th century did not immediately embrace this new artistic technique and curators were not very eager to exhibit new French Impressionist works in Spain.  

At the same time, some Spanish artists were friends with Impressionists. Pere Vidal de Solares, a Catalan painter of Cuban origin, was painted by Renoir in Bal du Moulin de la Galette (1876). Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller painted in the style of CĆ©zanne and Pissarro, whom he got to know in Paris at the CafĆ© Guerbois, the studio of Charles Gleyre, and the AcadĆ©mie Suisse. Adolfo Guiard, according to Juan de la Encina, met Degas in Paris in 1878. Girona sculptor Ricard GuinĆ³ succeeded in proving in court that he was co-author of the works he had created under Renoirā€™s instructions. 

MariĆ  Fortuny, who died in 1874, the same year when the Impressionists showed their first exhibition at Nadarā€™s studio in Paris, had painted in an easy and free style, almost alike to the nascent style of Impressionism. 

DarĆ­o the Regoyos was the Spanish painter who best knew the innovative European groups and was a regular at the avant-garde circles in Brussels, where he met Meunier, Van Rysselberghe, Verhaeren, Ensor, and Rops. Pisarro, Rodin and many important Neo-Impressionists, such as Seurat, Signac, and Luce, were amongst his friends.

Ramon Casas, who arrived in Paris in 1881, was close to Impressionism. His work Bullring (1884, Museu de Montserrat) shows an early influence of the most colouristic Impressionism. Afterwards, Casasā€™s most distinctive style, that of Plein air (1890, Museu Nacional dā€™Art de Catalunya), was quite more similar to Whistler and Degas. Casasā€™s friend Santiago RusiƱol, who painted in a style similar to that of Degas, participated in the SeptiĆØme Exposition des Peintres Impressionnistes et Symbolistes (1894). In 1894 RusiƱol and Ignacio Zuloaga shared an atelier in Paris. 

The influence of Impressionism did not really succeed in Spain at the time, except for the northern regions of Catalonia and the Basque Country, but some painters, such as cosmopolitan Aureliano de Beruete or JoaquĆ­n Sorolla ā€”disciple of the formerā€”, assimilated some traces of this new school later on. 

In December 1897, Catalan painters Isidre Nonell and Ricard Canals took part in the Salon des Impressionnistes et Symbolistes. Nonell, who was the standard-bearer for the most innovative Catalan painting, was more inclined towards Expressionism than Impressionism, but Canals did connect with the Impressionist scene, taking into account that Durand-Ruel, the first art merchant of Impressionism, traded his works. 

Even so, orthodox Impressionism did not fully flourish in Spanish painting until Marian Pidelaserra and Pere Ysern underwent an astonishing conversion to Impressionism in Paris (1899ā€“1901). The gallery Sala ParĆ©s, in Barcelona, showed the works they had painted in Paris. Ysern showed his work in July 1901 and Pidelaserra in February 1902. For the first time, Impressionist landscapes, primarily urban, close to Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro, were shown to the South of the Pyrenees.

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