Els Quatre Gats

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Marilyn McCully Els Quatre Gats was a café in Barcelona where, from 1897 to 1903, artists and writers met and exchanged ideas. The personalities who made up the Els Quatre Gats group were the acknowledged leaders of Catalan modernismo in the arts, and the ideas that were generated at the café influenced somé of the most important artistic currents of the new century. Marilyn McCully examines the cultural milieu of Barcelona at the turn of the century and discusses in depth the artists who frequented Els Quatre Gats, among them Pablo Picasso, who held his first show there in 1900, when he was only nineteen. Among other artists in the Els Quatre Gats group were Ramón Casas, Isidro Nonell, Ramón Pichot, Santiago Rusinol, and Miguel Utrillo. Over seventy works of art-including paintings, drawings, prints, and posters-are illustrated. There are excellent examples of Picasso's early work as well as documentary photographs of the café. The author aims to define the modernista movement,... Tovább

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Marilyn McCully Els Quatre Gats was a café in Barcelona where, from 1897 to 1903, artists and writers met and exchanged ideas. The personalities who made up the Els Quatre Gats group were the acknowledged leaders of Catalan modernismo in the arts, and the ideas that were generated at the café influenced somé of the most important artistic currents of the new century. Marilyn McCully examines the cultural milieu of Barcelona at the turn of the century and discusses in depth the artists who frequented Els Quatre Gats, among them Pablo Picasso, who held his first show there in 1900, when he was only nineteen. Among other artists in the Els Quatre Gats group were Ramón Casas, Isidro Nonell, Ramón Pichot, Santiago Rusinol, and Miguel Utrillo. Over seventy works of art-including paintings, drawings, prints, and posters-are illustrated. There are excellent examples of Picasso's early work as well as documentary photographs of the café. The author aims to define the modernista movement, which constitutes a major chapter in the history of modern Spanish art, and to show the vigorous Catalan environment from which the young Picasso emerged. The catalogue of an exhibition held in 1978 at the Princeton University Art Museum, and subsequently at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., this volume documents, for the first time, an important period in Catalan art. Marilyn McCully is Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A Publication of The Art Museum, Princeton University isbn 0-691-03928-3 Distributed by Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Vissza