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Room 202


Words in Freedom. Surrealism and Magnetic Fields


The birth of Surrealism was inextricably linked to literature. For many surrealist artists, painting and sculpture shared the same nature as prose and poetry, in the way they revealed the deepest emotions and psychological processes. One of the major artists was Joan Miró, whose works in the 1920s exemplified this blurring of the boundaries between drawing and writing and between the visual and the poetic.
One of the main media used by the avant-garde between the wars was collage. This room presents a selection of the work of three outstanding representatives of the history of Spanish collage; Benjamín Palencia, Adriano del Valle and Nicolás de Lekuona, who took the language of modernity and cultivated photo-collage in a remarkable way.

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image of Joan Miró. Pintura (Hombre con pipa), 1925

image of Jean Arp. Objets placés selon les lois du hasard (Objetos colocados según las leyes del azar), 1926

image of Adriano del Valle. La casa de tócamerroque, 1930

Joan Miró. Pintura (Hombre con pipa), 1925

Jean Arp. Objets placés selon les lois du hasard (Objetos colocados según las leyes del azar) , 1926

Adriano del Valle. La casa de tócamerroque, 1930

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