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III. 'Noucentisme'(s)

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  • III.26. Realism(s)

Although the predominant discourse on the art of the 20th century has made abstraction its main topic, the fact is that modernity is also expressed through figurative art and realism. This happens either from positions that are in favour of renovation or clearly avant-gardist –the case of magic realism, New Objectivity or Social Realism–, or from reactionary postures which, under the anti-avant-garde slogan of a ‘return to order’, argue for the recovery of an art with ties to contemporary subject matter but subjected to academic rules.

III.23. ‘Noucentisme’ and Mediterraneanism [1]

III.24. Galeries Laietanes [2]

III.25. Avant-garde(s) [3]

III.26. Realism(s)

III. 27. Modern life 1. Photography, film., advertising [4]

III.28. New art and Surrealism(s) [5]

III.29. Modern life 2. Experimentalism and the people’s media [6]

III.30. Monumental decorative art [7]

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Francesc Domingo, Espectadors, 1930

Ángeles Santos Torroella, Nena (retrat de Conchita), cap a 1929

Ramon Calsina, El Vallès optimista, cap a 1932

 Feliu Elías, La galeria, 1928


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[1] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes [2] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-0 [3] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-1 [4] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-3 [5] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-4 [6] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-5 [7] https://www.museunacional.cat/en/iii-noucentismes-6