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I. The Rise of the Modern Artist

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  • I.11. Historical painting versus current affairs

In the hierarchies of art, historical painting has occupied the highest position. These were large-format works with many characters, which earned the artist his greatest recognition. But in an artistic world that was no longer dominated by the symbolism of the ancien régime, so much as by the fickleness of the market and the fleeting present, there was no longer room for those great ‘moralising machines’. Driven by the advent of journalism and photography and the need to preserve his status in face of these new media, the modern artist replaced historical themes with current affairs issues: the colonial war, the class struggle, etc.

I.1. Studio, character and work [1]

I.2. Portraits and self-portraits [2]

I.3. The artist’s apprenticeship. The academy [3]

I.4. Realisms: model and nude [4]

I.5. The artist in his studio [5]

I.6. The bohemian artist [6]

I.7. The bourgeois portrait [7]

I.8. The enthusiast in the studio [8]

I.9. Orientalism [9]

I.10. Japonism and other exoticisms [10]

I.11. Historical painting versus current affairs

I.12. Landscape 1: open air painting and photography [11]

I.13. Landscape 2: Impressionisms [12]

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Josep Lluís Pellicer, Portrait of the correspondent Juderic Villiers, 1877

Ramon Casas, The Corpus Christi Procession Leaving the Church of Santa Maria, 1896-1898

Marià Fortuny, The Battle of Tetouan, 1863-1865

 

Josep Lluís Pellicer, Battery at Pelichat, 1877

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[1] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist [2] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-0 [3] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-1 [4] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-2 [5] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-3 [6] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-4 [7] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-5 [8] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-6 [9] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-lascensio-de-lartista-modern [10] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-7 [11] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-9 [12] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/i-rise-modern-artist-10