A Historical Look at Visual Art in Spain

 Identify expressive art forms of Spain  Identify how customs and beliefs of Spain are reflected in its art forms and work.  Identify some of Spain’s significant artists.  Recognize some of Spain’s renown artistic contributions to the world community.

 Discovered in 1879  Dated around 14,000 B.C.E.  Done in three colors of ochre, red, and black

 Minateda paintings located on the Iberian Peninsula near Murcia (Mediterranean coast)  Dated around 6,000 to 2,000 B.C.E.

 Islamic Influence on Spanish culture  Usually limited to floral patterns and geometric shapes Cordoba Mosque

Alhambra Palace (Granada)

 Pablo Picasso  Best known for his “Cubism” pieces  Also known for symbolism and surrealism  Considered “Father of Modern Art”  Sculpture  Pottery  Draughtsman  Salvador Dalí  Best known for his surrealism pieces  Also known for avant-garde, cubism, nuclear mysticism  Film surrealism  Autobiography

 Blue Period ( )  The Old Guitarist

 Rose Period ( )  Garçon à la pipe

 African-Influenced Period ( )  Mother and Child

 Classicism, Surrealism, and Symbolism (1920s)  Guernica (commissioned by Spanish Republican Government, 1937, in response to bombing of Basque town of Guernica)

 Cubism ( )  Portrait of Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler

 Sculpture  Chicago Picasso (1967)  Pottery  Draughtsman

 Surrealism  Most Famous: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

 Cubism  Portrait of a Seated Person Holding a Letter (1923)

 Avant-Garde  The Dali Atomicus (1948)

 Nuclear Mysticism  The Hallucinogenic Toreador ( )

 Film  Collaborated with film director Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou (1929)Luis Buñuel  L’Age d’Or again with Luis Buñuel (1930)  Dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945)  Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1975)  Destino with Walt Disney (posthumous completion 2003)  Literature:  The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942)

 Spain’s architecture is rich and widely varied.  Roman influence.  Moorish (Islamic) influence.  Romanesque.  Gothic.  Renaissance.  Baroque.  Neoclassical.  Modern architecture.

 Roman Influence  Theater in Mérida Roman conquest of Spain around 218 B.C.E ; theater built around 25 B.C.E

 Islamic Influence (7 th Century through the 15 th Century)  Mosaics.  Palace of Aljafería, Zaragoza

 Romanesque (10 th and 11 th Centuries)  Catedral de Santiago de Compostela

 Gothic (12 th Century)  Catedral de Burgos-Fernán González

 Renaissance (15 th Century)  Palace of Charles V, Granada

 Baroque (17 th Century)  Royal Palace of Madrid

 Neoclassical (18 th and 19 th Centuries)  Prado Museum, designed by Juan de Villanueva (1819)Juan de Villanueva

 Modernism (20 th and 21 st Centuries)  Ciatat de les Arts i les Ciènces, Valencia

Cave Paintings Mosaics Sculpture Cubism Surrealism Architecture Cinema