VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
With the works donated by the Kuntsmuseum It Haag from The Hague, IVAM investigates interwar Dutch realism, a current eclipsed by the two stages between which it is embedded: the Avant-garde of the first quarter of the century and the abstract art that prevailed after the Second World War. In the midst of the serious economic crisis, European political and social, Holland returned to the order of still lifes, portraits and landscapes leaving behind the coldness of the avant-garde (of Of Style and company), to talk about everyday life and the most disadvantaged strata of society from a different position, more intimate and impregnated with magical realism. He returned to figuration, but based on the study of the human condition. Charley Toorop, on which it pivots Reinventing representation (a woman!), reflects the inner world of its sitters in their gaze in an innovative way, but in some of his canvases traces of the most recent past survive, like in that sick woman of brush strokes vangoghianas. The woodcuts of Wim Oepts They capture everyday life in a very cinematic way, almost like frames, y Pyke Koch, with his attire Bertha Antwerp, takes us back to the crazy years 20, and makes us see that, through realism, one can also express one's inner world. S.M.
