F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
The Bancaja Foundation offers us the work of two artists who are at the top of the Spanish Olympus and in the history of universal art., Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso. The exhibition focuses on the traces of Goya that can be seen in Picasso's artistic production, who drank with admiration and rivalry from the baroque master (and many others) in his compositions, themes, attitudes and gestures, advanced for its time. Seduced by Goya, The man from Malaga faced classicism. We talk about the totem of art that cubism invented, no more no less. The two verses were free, individualists, rebellious and committed, with certain vital parallels, who reacted to what was established. The Aragonese was a genius of engraving, the technique with which he was able to more freely express his thoughts and inventions away from the restrictions implicit in the commissions of the court or the clergy. The Bancaja Foundation is one of the institutions with the largest graphic work by Picasso in the world and regularly displays it., but the Goya engravings from the Ibercaja Foundation that you can see in this exhibition are not lavish in Valencia and are a luxury that you cannot miss, You have at hand such capital series as Caprichos, Disasters of war, Bullfighting and the Disparates. The engraver Goya is a mature man, of fame and fortune, but already affected by deafness and the political crises that afflict Spain, especially for the cruelties committed during the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleonic troops at the beginning of the 19th century. in the series Disasters of war reflects fanaticism, the terror, the misery and death of the conflict in engravings full of drama and dynamism. The Picasso parallelism would be the Guernica, an allegation against the barbarism of the Spanish Civil War, the one he had to live, and the one that, finally, pushed him into exile in France, same fate that Goya ended up in. The Guernica of the 1930s is the culmination of a turbulent period in Picasso's life., that the outbreak of the Second World War could be smelled and, personally, He maintained a clandestine relationship with Marie Thérèse that spurred the production of a series of mythological-autobiographical engravings.. Full of sexual drive, They combined the Greco-Latin tradition with subversive and surreal elements. In the middle of this personal crossroads appears his alter ego in his painting, the minotaur, a being that in the engravings symbolizes his personal struggle and in Guernica personifies the universal fight against barbarism. In the exhibition you will also be able to see the series Caprichos, where Goya collects in a satirical way facts and customs that catch his attention, y Minotauromaquia, who brings to the table his passion—shared with Picasso—for bullfighting, where he pours into bullfighting all the heroism that he wanted to take away from the war. AU
