For:
General public Friends
Time:

In-person modality, Sundays from 12.00 to 13.15:
27 September / 25 October / 29 November / 13 December / 24 January

Online modality, Fridays from 17.30 to 18.45:
25 September / 23 October/ 27 November / 11 December / 22 January

Place:
Auditorium / Online
Price:

Complete cicle:
Friends of the museum: €120
General public: €170

Individual session:
Friends of the museum: €25
General public: €35

Booking for Friends of the museum opens on 11 September and 15 September for general public (online and on tel. +34 917 911 370, from 10.00 to 20.00).

The second block of the course Routes around the collection, devoted to exploring the history of art through the museum’s collection, will focus on the artistic movements that arose between the 18th century and the early decades of the 20th century. Starting with pre-Revolutionary French painting and Romanticism, the programme consists of five monthly sessions. These sessions will analyse the factors leading to the emergence of movements such as Realism and Impressionism, which focused on the perception of transience and on modern life in a context in which photography fostered new ways of understanding, structuring and representing reality.

This module of the course also addresses the role of industrialisation, urban growth and political instability in the emergence of Expressionism, concluding with Cubism’s fragmentation of the image and abandonment of traditional perspective, which paved the way for the new pictorial languages of the 20th century.

Schedule of sessions:
 

September / Session I: The beginning of the end. Hedonism and revolution in 18th-century French painting.

 
October / Session II: Representing the passions: Romanticism as the first avant-garde. 


 
November / Session:  Impressionism. Painting of modern life.



 
December / Session IV: Expressionism. Rupture, subjectivity and colour in the European avant-garde.



 
January / Session V: Cubism and its legacy: the fragmented image.