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GLOSSARY OF ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS TEAM CATALOGUE INFORMATION Synthetic Cubism Informal Art Centre Pompidou De Miró a Barceló. Un siglo de arte OPENING HOURS After Analytical Cubism (up to 1912), artists such as The expression “Informal Art” was coined by critic español / From Miró to Barceló. A 9.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m., every day Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque or Juan Gris entered Michel Tapié in his publication Un Art Autre [Art of CURATOR Century of Spanish Art Ticket offices close at 7:30 p.m. a new phase with Synthetic Cubism (up to around Another Kind] in 1952. It designated the abstract, Brigitte Leal, Deputy Director of the Edited by Brigitte Leal The museum is closed on Tuesdays 1919): they reintroduced readable signs to the gestural and spontaneous pictorial techniques that Musée National d’Art Moderne Co-published by the Public Agency for (except holidays and days before From Miró to Barceló canvas - elements of everyday life, papers and glued dominated European art from 1945 to 1960, and the Management of the Casa Natal of holidays), 1 January and objects - thus making Cubism evolve towards an included Tachisme, Matter painting or Lyrical ASSISTED BY Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Other Museum 25 December A Century of Spanish Art aesthetic thinking based on the various levels of abstraction. Its American equivalent was known as Alice Fleury, Heritage Curator Intern and Cultural Facilities and Centre reference to reality. Abstract Expressionism. Laura Diez, Intern Pompidou 240 p., 132 ill. PRICES 12 March 2020 – 1 November 2021 COLLECTION MANAGER Entry to permanent exhibitions: Purism El Paso Design: Xavi Rubiras Aurélie Sahuqué €7, concessions: €4 Purism was an aesthetic doctrine developed by The El Paso group, founded in Madrid in 1957 and Entry to temporary exhibitions: architect Le Corbusier and painter Amédée Ozenfant dissolved in 1960, united critics and artists (such as REGISTRARS €4, concessions: €2.50 Cubism, surrealism, figuration and abstraction; painting, sculpture, in the journal L’Esprit Nouveau, between 1920 and Saura or Millares) in the call to support contemporary Mélissa Étave ALONGSIDE THE Entry to permanent and temporary 1925. Stemming from a criticism of the complex art in Spain. They fought for the creation of a Xavier Isaïa EXHIBITION exhibitions: film and video; in the history of 20th and 21st century art, not a single abstractions of Cubism, Purism advocated for a distribution network, which barely existed in this Pierre Paucton €9, concessions: €5.50 period or field has not been led by Spanish artists. Pablo Picasso, return to order, emphasizing the machine, simple highly conservative era, in particular by signing David Rouge forms and the geometry which must guide the manifestos and organising exhibitions. Discover all our activities (tours, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí or Luis Buñuel advocated for new ways of workshops, events…) on our website: composition of artworks. ART RESTAURATION CONTACT centrepompidou-malaga.eu seeing and creating that remain strong influences today. This Abstract Expressionism Astrid Lorenzen Pasaje doctor Carrillo Casaux, s/n Surrealism Abstract Expressionism, theorised by Clement Sophie Spalek [Muelle Uno, Puerto de Malaga) chronological pathway through a century of Spanish art reveals how This subversive movement emerged in 1924 at the Greenberg, brought together New York-based artists GUIDED TOURS T. [+34) 951 926 200 the current generation of artists has kept alive the spirit of the initiative of the poet and author André Breton. in the 1940s whose common point was to freely MEDIATION The mediation team offers you guided [email protected] Through plays on language, collective drawings, express their personal lyricism through gesture and Delphine Coffin tours to discover a selection of works [email protected] avant-garde with extraordinary energy. Their predecessors lived wanderings or travel, the surrealist artists explored colour, with no regard for representation. A variety of Célia Crétien from the collection, in an active and through troubling times, Parisian exile, the war, and ostracism which the potentialities of dreams and the sub-conscious to tendencies stemmed from this group, in particular Laura Samoilovich sensitive way. produce works of disturbing strangeness which Jackson Pollock’s and Willem de Kooning’s Action © Juan Gris, VEGAP, Málaga 2020 fuelled a repertoire of moving, radical and even sacrilegious images. attempted to reconcile art and life. painting. Individuals © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala - Once freedom restored, their heirs, such as Miquel Barceló, Cristina Centre Pompidou Málaga Included in the price of the ticket. Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Málaga, 2020 © Sucesión Pablo Picasso. Málaga Pompidou Centre Iglesias, and La Ribot, among others, keep on surprising us by Magic realism Narrative Figuration Inscription on the same day at the COLLECTION MANAGER VEGAP, Madrid, 2020 This post-expressionist visual movement was defined Narrative Figuration was an activist pictorial reception. 25 people maximum. inventing new approaches to painting, sculpture and space which Elena Robles García In English © Succession Antonio Saura / in 1925 by German critic Franz Roh, to designate movement that emerged in France in the 1960s, in Friday at 4:00 pm www.antoniosaura.org / A+V Agencia re-enchant the materials, rituals and myths of Spanish art. artists (such as De Chirico, Derain, Miró, Grosz and the context of a tense international climate and the CONSERVATION In Spanish de Creadores Visuales 2020 Dix, etc.) who refuted objective realism and preferred advent of the consumer society. Like the American Paula Coarasa Lobato Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, to create bridges between everyday reality, the artists of Pop Art, Narrative Figuration painters Elisa Quiles Faz Saturday and Sunday at 12:30 pm mundane, symbolism or surrealism. The movement placed contemporary society and its mass images at Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday developed in Germany after the First World War and the centre of their works. Contrary to Pop artists, ARCHITECTURE AND SCENOGRAPHY at 6:00 pm was more widely known as New Objectivity. however, their desire was to make art a tool of social Frade Arquitectos S. L. transformation. Groups Noucentisme CORPORATE IDENTITY From a group of 8 people. In Spanish, Noucentisme was an artistic and political movement Gloria Rueda Chaves English and French, by prior reservation: which emerged in Catalonia from 1906 to 1923, in [email protected] opposition to the radicalism and spontaneity of INSTALLATION Modernism, which had preceded it. Noucentisme UTE ICCI (Ingeniería Cultural y Cobra advocated for a return to order and refined production, Instalaciones) With the support of: drawing inspiration from classicism and Mediterranean culture. centrepompidou-malaga.eu The 1920s Surrealism The 1930s The Matterists Spanish artists of the École de Paris The Post-War Generation Following the Dada movement, the Surrealists, led by In the 1950s, Spanish art saw a renewal through the From the 1960s, the social and cultural barriers André Breton, came together as of 1919 to launch works of Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura, Manolo which had separated Spain from the rest of Europe new definitions of art, based on transgression, Millares and Eduardo Chillida. Raw language, torn began to dissolve and the country renewed with automatism, dreams and the uncanny. They drew on canvases, graffiti, tensions between abstraction and modernity after the fall of Franco’s regime in 1975. In the strategies of revolutionary activists to oppose figuration and explorations on matter are among the the final years of his career, Miró liberated his bourgeois culture, adding tracts, publications and features that characterise their works, inspired by technique, mirroring Jackson Pollock and the demonstrations to controversial exhibitions. The French Art Informel*. With the magazine Dau al Set, Abstract Expressionists*. Eduardo Arroyo, based in cohesion of the movement was fractured in groups which he co-founded in 1948, Tàpies was highly Paris since 1958, where he was involved with the unified in their aesthetic practices or political active in the opposition to the reactionary movement artists of Figuration Narrative*, embodied the spirit of combats. Rue Blomet, in the Montparnasse district, of the time. Saura adhered to the legacy of the the 1960s: the activist struggle, the uprooting, and a where Miró and Masson had a studio in 1923, was Expressionists and Guernica’s Picasso, with a critical, humorous interpretation of art history. He frequented by the writers Michel Leiris, Antonin painting that carries the tragedies of Spain. These returned to Spain after the fall of Franco. The artists Artaud, and Paul Éluard. In 1929, Salvador Dalí and artists, who explored the expressiveness of matter, who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s moved away Juan Gris, La Vue sur la baie [View of the Bay], juin 1921 Luis Buñuel, the authors of Un chien andalou, Pablo Picasso, Nature morte [Still Life], 29 janvier 1922 found support from Parisian galleries, such as from the formal preoccupations of previous Oil on canvas, 65 × 100 cm adhered to Surrealism, thus confirming its rooting in Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm Stadler for Saura and Tàpies, or Daniel Cordier for avant-gardists. Miquel Barceló, Juan Muñoz, José © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP psychoanalytical thinking. In 1930, the screening of © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist.
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