French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century represents a crossroads in the history of art. This was a period of change and experimentation, even revolution. For many painters, the tradition of the "Grand Manner", inherited from the ...

Under the title Volume!, MACBA, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, presents the first in a series of major exhibitions jointly organised with "la Caixa" Foundation with the purpose of different selections from amongst the 5,500 works in ...

"When I paint a picture, I am not writing a thought". Eugène Delacroix questioned the need for a theme in painting. According to the great French artist, what created emotion on a canvas were its artistic values ? material, light, colour ? rather ...

The Ballets Russes created dances that reflected the 20th century. Its history was of an exceptional company, renown for its productions, which with a large number of innovating shows gave modernity its colour. After one hundred years, the ...

"la Caixa" Welfare Projects presents the programme for its Madrid social and cultural centre for the 2011-2012 season, a wide range of cultural attractions where everyone will find something to enjoy. The starting point will be the most important ...

”la Caixa” Welfare Projects announces the programme for the 2011-2012 season at CaixaForum Palma. It will begin on 14 September with Forever, an innovatory project with the artist Tanit Plana, who gives a voice to women's experience of marriage.

"la Caixa" Social and Cultural Outreach Projects presents the programme for CaixaForum Barcelona, its social and cultural centre in the city, for the 2011-2012 season. It also marks the celebration of the tenth year since it opened its doors in ...

The closing decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th were marked by enormous and far-reaching changes in the history of European painting. These changes affected both the stylistic conventions of the art of painting and the ...

“I was not interested in filming the reality as it was given. And I’m not interested in building fiction. What I am interested in is setting up a reality, building a situation, constructing a world, and documenting it." In his work, Pierre Huyghe ...