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Belle Epoque Portraits in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

La CaixaForum de Barcelona exhibe hasta el 20 de octubre Retratos. CaixaForum in Barcelona exhibits, until the 20th of October, ´Retratos de la Belle Epoque´ (Portraits of the Belle Epoque), which shows the historical period that goes from the end of the 19th century until 1914 – date of the First World War – through portraits. During this period there was a great change in European society that would affect art and the relationship between the artist and its public. It´s then when the first art avant-gardes surge, as well as impressionism, post-impressionism and Art Nouveau. The exhibition explores in a majestic way the iconographic and psychological transformations from a delimited period, through 78 works and 42 artists, among which we can find Giovani Boldini, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargeant, Joaquín Sorolla, Oskar Kokoschka and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec among others. The works are organized around nine outlooks on the portrait of the Belle Epoque, which go from its beginning until the crisis that ends up in war. After the Franco-Prussian war, Europe lived a period of peace that lasted close to four decades. During that period, which is where Belle Epoque belongs, there´s a very important economic, technical and scientific development that would reflect in arts and thoughts. During those years, Sigmund Freud broke academia with his therapeutical practice of psychoanalysis. There are the years of the Industrial Revolution and the surge of Marxism, the proliferation of the unions, the large migrations of poor Europeans to the United States and urban growth. The process of enormous accumulation of the industrial bourgeoisie began to sophisticate its tastes... read more