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SPAIN / Madrid: The Impressionists and Photography
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday January 26 2020

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
T : +34 91 791 13 70
Paseo del Prado 8
28014 Madrid
Spain

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exhibitions/impressionists-and-photography

The key position that photography now occupies in the context of contemporary art has encouraged a renewed interest in art-historical studies with regard to the impact of its invention on the visual arts. The exhibition The Impressionists and Photography pursues this line of research. It offers a critical reflection on affinities and mutual influences between photography and painting while also looking at the lively debate that its emergence generated among critics and artists in France in the second half of the 19th century.

Curated by Paloma Alarcó, the exhibition is divided into nine thematic sections: The Forest, Figures in the Landscape, Water, The Countryside, Monuments, The City, Portraits, The Body and Archives, which together reveal the artistic concerns shared by painters and photographers.

© Modem