"Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí" presents Barcelona as a booming industrial city with conflicting politics and revolutionary works of art, architecture, and design. To explore the relationships among the visual arts, broader cultural activity, and political events of the era, the exhibition is organized in nine thematic sections, beginning with the origins of the Catalan Renaissance. The remaining sections focus on the major artistic movements that followed: Modernisme, Noucentisme, and other avant-garde idioms such as Surrealism, with a final section on works of art influenced by the Spanish Civil War.
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Ramon Casas (1866–1932)
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem (End of the 19th Century), 1897
Oil on canvas; 75 1/8 x 84 1/2 in. (191 x 215 cm)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Photo © MNAC-Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2006
Photo: Jordi Calveras, Marta Mèrida, Joan Sagristà
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