El Museo de arte Thyssen-Bornemisza - (Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid-España)

Pissarro
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Pissarro

4 June to 15 September 2013

Advance purchase is recommended

Autor:: Camille Pissarro
Título:: Self-portrait
Fecha:: 1903

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 41 x 33 cm.
Ubicacion:: Tate: gift of Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son, 1931.

<exchanging gazes> 6: Reflections. From Van Eyck to Magritte

New Display of the Collections

From 10 June to 15 September 2013

Autor:: Jan van Eyck
Título:: The Annunciation Diptych: The Archangel Gabriel (detail)
Fecha:: c. 1433-1435

Técnica: Oil on panel: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Nº INV. 137.a (1933.11.1)

Next Exhibitions

Salvador Dalí
Dream caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate one Second before waking
1944
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
© Salvador Dalí, Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí / VEGAP, Madrid 2012

Surrealism and the Dream

From 08 October 2013 to 12 January 2014

Surrealism was not just another artistic movement but an attitude to life that has left a profound mark on all subsequent artistic creation. For the first time this exhibition will reveal how this transformation of modern sensibility had its roots in the profound connection between dream and image in Surrealism. Paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and photographs by artists such as André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, André Masson, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Claude Cahun and Paul Nougé will be used to construct an overview of this fascinating relationship proposed by the curator José Jiménez, to which little attention has been given in art-historical studies. From the outset, the Surrealists championed the dream together with automatic writing, seeing them as fundamental routes towards the liberation of the psyche. While Freud’s thinking, in particular his great work The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), was crucial for the Surrealists’ own approach to the world of dreams, they were more than mere followers of his ideas. For them, the dream was a field of experience different to that of conscious life, and knowledge of it was essential for the enrichment and expansion of the psyche.