Bilbao Fine Arts Museum holds "Novecento and Avant-Garde"

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents The "Novecento and the Early Avant-garde" exhibition until May 24th.

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 "Novecento and the Early Avant-garde" now presents 149 works from the early 20t--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.

Joaquin Torres Garcia, Joaquim Sunyer, Aurelio Arteta, Daniel Vazquez Diaz, Julian de Tellaeche, Antonio de Guezala, Celso Lagar, Gabriel Garcia Maroto and Jose Maria de Ucelay are some of the leading artists represented here.