José Mª de Ucelay, "Playing bowls in San Bartolomé", c. 1935Novecentismo and Avant-Garde (1910-1936) in Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Collection
2 March - 24 May, 2009
After Basque Artists and From Goya to Gauguin, held in 2008 to shed fresh light on certain sections of the Museum collection, The Novecento and the Early Avant-garde now presents 149 works from the early 20th-century, in a selection of paintings, sculptures, exhibition posters and photographs by professor Eugenio Carmona. The early decades of the last century were crucial to developments in contemporary Spanish art, which is so well represented in the Museum collection. At the beginning of the century, the idea of the modern covered a broad spectrum of sensibilities, ranging from what was known as novecentismo (the novecento, i.e. the nineteen hundreds), which sought to create a refined art, almost classical in its restraint, to the avant-garde, most often identified with Cubism and Futurism. At the same time, the legacy of Symbolism and Impressionism continued to influence artists. In this context, a number of Basque artists tried to redefine the sense of local identity and the vernacular.
Joaquín Torres García, Joaquim Sunyer, Aurelio Arteta, Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Julián de Tellaeche, Antonio de Guezala, Celso Lagar, Gabriel García Maroto and Jose María de Ucelay are some of the leading artists represented here.
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