Spanish art (3)Romanticism broke with neoclassical aesthetics. Highlights from this period are the National Library building and the paintings of Mariano Fortuny. In architecture, the XIXth century finished with the modernism style, of which an authentic explosion occurred in Barcelona, with figures like Antonio Gaudí, designer of, among others, the Sagrada Familia Temple and the Batlló House.  The XXth century has seen diverse styles: at the beginning of the century impressionist techniques had in Joaquin Sorolla its most outstanding painter. Later, the new Parisian artistic tendencies gave birth to several vanguard styles of which Pablo Picasso (cubism), Joan Miro and Salvador Dalí (surrealism) stand out. In the Second Republic period, architecture was focused on rationalism and functionalism (Josep Lluis Sert). The international isolation of Spain after the Civil War produced a post-war period of monumentalistic architecture, that ended in the 50’s with more innovating architects like Oriol Bohigas or Ricardo Bofia (Santiago Calatrava and Rafael Moneo stand out in present times). During the sixties, pop-art emerged, guided by Equipo Cronica, a group of artists. The most important sculptors of the XXth century have been Pablo Gargallo, Eduardo Chillida and Jorge de Oteiza, and in painting, Antoni Tapies and Miquel Barceló stand out. |
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