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A work, 15 minutes
Read moreMale head crowned with vine shoots (obverse) / Male head crowned with vine shoots (reverse)
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Sketch of a saint and seated figures
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A street in Seville
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La pregària
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Loving couple. Project for a fan
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I. The Rise of the Modern Artist
One of the ways in which the modern artist defends his independence from academic norms is through realism, understood as an unidealised description of the world. The nude being the culmination of academic apprenticeship, it is hardly surprising that it is also where this move against idealisation shows most. The human body displayed in its most material reality, therefore, went against the abstract canons of beauty represented in the classic nude. The ineluctable objectivity of photography, a new competitor of art in its own terrain, was to have an enormous influence in this realistic vision of the body.
I. The Rise of the Modern Artist
Whereas the landscape took second place under the old hierarchies, in the latter half of the 19th century it became the most important genre in painting. For one, as a byword for realism, and for another, as the image of the freedom of the artist who, having left the enclosed life of the academy, painted unfettered en plein air, ie in the open air. But this is also a terrain in which the competition from photography showed itself in the repetition of subject matter and formal resources... Pictorialism, a photographic movement that sought to ‘elevate’ photography to the category of art, found its chief subject matter in cloud-filled landscapes and backlighting.
From Republican rescue to Francoist control: ‘Recovered from the enemy’
Read moreDonations and bequests to the Museu Nacional
Planned donations or bequests to the museum
Each day, thousands of children, youths and adults are enriched by visiting the collections of the museum or attending its activities and exhibitions.
Some of the donations from individuals such as that of Enric Batlló (1914), the Cambó bequest (1949-1954) or that of the Espona bequest (1958) and other more recent ones such as the donation of the collection of Joan Colom (2012) due to the will of the photographer himself, have contributed to forming the collections of the museum as we know it today.
If the Museu Nacional is important to you, you should know that you have the possibility of helping it by means of a donation for the future or by means of the works of art in lieu of payment of taxes.
All the donations, however modest they may be, are important contributions for increasing the collections of the museum, providing support for the exhibitions and their education and social programmes.
We are committed to using your donation in an efficient way, attend to your will, with respect and sensitivity, and recognising it in the most suitable way possible.
If you are interested, please write to [email protected] or call 93 622 03 60.
Donations in micro-patronage projects
The Foundation of the Friends of the Museu Nacional and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya invite you to form an active part in the funding of certain projects, such as, for example, acquisitions and restorations of works of art. Thanks to a project of this type, the drawing The Prayer , by Marià Fortuny, now forms part of the collections of the Museu Nacional.
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