Art
IVAM…REINVENTING REPRESENTATION: DUTCH ART BETWEEN THE WARS

##DUTCH ART EXHIBITION IN VALENCIA “Exceptionally, for the first time in Spain, an exhibition of a major group of works from this crucial creative period in Dutch art is being made available by the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, which received contributions from the IVAM Collection for the show that it devoted to Julio González in 2017. This new case study enables us to contextualise part of that museum’s collection, concentrating on the expressive and representational qualities of figurative art in the period between the wars, and featuring emblematic artists such as George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix, together with the more existential works of the Dutch artists.

Figuration in all its varied forms was a constant feature in the theoretical discourses of 20th-century art, alongside the other dominant concepts, which concentrated on abstraction and surrealism. This alternative, focusing on a study of the human condition, was a return to representation which served as a refuge for a world teetering between barbarity and savagery during the period between the wars. Figuration flourished extensively in European countries such as Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

In the area of the realist techniques that define the figurative approach an outstanding place is occupied by the acute and penetrating gazes of artists such as Charley Toorop (1891–1955) and Pyke Koch (1901–1991), who contributed their enveloping atmospheres to Dutch Magic Realism and expanded the enormously complex and diverse typology of the concept of the portrait.”

 

IVAM

Tel: 963 176 600
Guillem de Castro, 118
46003 Valencia

https://www.ivam.es/

 

Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00h a 19:00h
Friday from 10:00h a 21:00h
Closed Mondays

 

REINVENTING REPRESENTATION: DUTCH ART BETWEEN THE WARS

Until January 19th 2020

 

Related Post

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

24/7 Valencia

ed@247valencia.com

24/7 Valencia is the definitive English Speaking guide to Valencia. Extensive Listings, up-to-date and informed articles on restaurants, chill out, clubland, football, culture, arts, books, woman and much more.
Languages »
error: Content is protected !!

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This