UNTIL SUNDAY 15/2
Mubav. Saint Pius V, 9
Reyes, gods, peasants, landscapes and flowers land at the Museum of Fine Arts to form an exhibition in which we will encounter Goya, Pantoja de la Cruz, Murillo, Van Dyck, Sorolla or Zuloaga, among many others. Each of the almost ninety pieces that we will see in Classic and modern belongs to the endless BBVA Collection (what the banks don't have), which falls between the 16th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and comes from different countries in Europe. This exposition is clearer in explaining the formation of the continent than any history book.
The tour takes us through four sections: the first —The time of kings and gods— shows us a political and social system marked by the tremendous importance of monarchies and religion, conceived as a way of being in the world, and art, as a weapon at the service of this political and religious power. The second section —The portrait: the human being at the center of the world— is dedicated to the claim of human beings to exist, to be known and remembered after death. Flores, landscapes, still lifes, and scenes of customs displace kings and gods in the third section —The triumph of the genres: landscapes, still lifes and customs—, full of pieces that adorned the houses of a bourgeoisie that began to spend on art to decorate their homes.
To finish, The paths of modernity addresses the arrival of modernity, in a period marked by the political and social transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries. It may seem that there is no connection between these pieces, so far apart geographically and temporally, but yes there is, and it is the concept of authorship. That hierarchy that begins in the 15th century and continues to the present day, that establishes what is valuable because it is painted by this or that artist. And nothing else, but from great artists, The Museum of Fine Arts has full rooms. GLORIA POZUELO
