Originally posted 2020-04-12 07:48:17. In the mid-19th century, at the same time as bourgeois society was taking shape, the figure of the modern artist appeared on the scene. Unlike the artist under the ancien régime, who was tied to the official symbolic cycles of the Church or the aristocracy, the…

Originally posted 2020-04-12 06:53:11. The National Art Museum of Catalonia’s Modern Art Collection was created from the Universal Exhibition of 1888, at which time the Barcelona City Council installed the then small collection of modern art, at that contemporary time, in the Palace of Fine Arts. The collection was significantly…