Thanks, Pilar. I can't talk about Fortuny's yet, but I found Cai's exhibition most extraordinary, once you learn about the technique.
From: pilar Mallén Bernal
Date: Tue, Dec 12, 2017
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From: pilar Mallén Bernal
Date: Tue, Dec 12, 2017
How to make the most of a day just as ordinary as any other.
It is autumn, Tuesday and you are in Madrid. You have the whole day ahead of you. Despite the beauty of the autumn colours and the sunshine outside, you have been invited to see the Fortuny exhibition at the Prado Museum. "Go with the flow", you think to yourself. "Never has the Prado leave you nonchalant".
Then, magic happens. While you are letting yourself go in the painting of the Spanish artist who achieved most international renown in the last third of the 19th century, still another exhibition awaits you next door: Cai Guo-Qiang, the first contemporary artist to create on-site at the Prado.
If you think that Fortuny's trips to cover the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859), were pretty much about his need to express colour, light and shadow, what can we say of this Chinese artist, with his nearly 30 paintings made with gunpowder?
Fortuny (1838-1874)
Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 11/21/2017 - 3/
The Museo Nacional del Prado is presenting an exhibition on Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874), to be displayed in the two principal galleries of the Museum's extension. This is the first retrospective on this leading Spanish artist to be presented at the Prado, which houses most of Fortuny's masterpieces due to the generous bequests of Ramón de Errazu and of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, the painter's son, as well as acquisitions purchased by the Museum.
As with the previous monographic exhibitions held at the Prado, Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874) will offer a reassessment of the artist's finest works.
Mariano Fortuny was the Spanish artist who achieved most international renown in the… | +
As with the previous monographic exhibitions held at the Prado, Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874) will offer a reassessment of the artist's finest works.
Mariano Fortuny was the Spanish artist who achieved most international renown in the… | +
The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Prado
Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 10/25/2017 - 3/
Cai Guo-Qiang is the first contemporary artist to create on-site at the Prado. This is his first solo exhibition solely focused on painting in over 30 years.
This exhibition, which arises from Cai Guo-Qiang's ongoing dialogue with El Greco and in which he establishes a relationship with the great masters represented in the Prado, comprises nearly 30 paintings made with gunpowder; eight of them ignited on-site at the Salón de Reinos. Also on view are an oil and an acrylic created at the start of his activities as a painter; and various sketches and drawings on matchboxes by his father, Cai Ruiqin, who steered him towards painting.
Room D will be showing a 20-minute documentary by Isabel… | +
This exhibition, which arises from Cai Guo-Qiang's ongoing dialogue with El Greco and in which he establishes a relationship with the great masters represented in the Prado, comprises nearly 30 paintings made with gunpowder; eight of them ignited on-site at the Salón de Reinos. Also on view are an oil and an acrylic created at the start of his activities as a painter; and various sketches and drawings on matchboxes by his father, Cai Ruiqin, who steered him towards painting.
Room D will be showing a 20-minute documentary by Isabel… | +
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