war and humankind, spain

What hu­man­i­ty?
The Hu­man Fig­ure Af­ter the War (1940–1960)
at MNAC Museu Na­cional D’Art De Catalun­ya, Barcelona 🎨

This cu­rat­ed col­lec­tion starts a con­ver­sa­tion about

“… the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the body and con­scious­ness, the pos­si­bil­i­ty of hero­ism, the func­tion of the grotesque, the im­age of the mon­ster, the nos­tal­gia for beau­ty or the com­mu­nica­tive func­tion of the face.”
 

 

This is an ex­hi­bi­tion that can cause dis­tress and fear of hu­mankind, as much as em­pa­thy for its dark past and hope for a bet­ter fu­ture.
 

 

“Around one hun­dred works by top lev­el Cata­lan, Span­ish and in­ter­na­tion­al artists who, be­tween 1940 and the mid nine­teen six­ties, tack­led the ques­tion of the fig­ure and of the hu­man con­di­tion, faced with the un­cer­tain­ties, mu­ta­tions, fail­ures and hopes caused by the Sec­ond World War and its pro­logue, the Span­ish Civ­il War”
 

 

Of­ten the trem­bling lines, fu­ri­ous brush­strokes and con­vuls­ing paint­ings are hard to watch, even more so know­ing these are the mem­o­ries of once a liv­ing per­son.
 

 

 

 

 

I do not know if the art is able to save the world but it does make one feel that it must be res­cued.

In this post I in­clud­ed most­ly pos­i­tive works, be­cause many artists also ex­pe­ri­enced a tremen­dous re­lief when the con­flicts they were a part of came to an end.
 

 

Some­times one might feel very small and in­ca­pable of mak­ing any change,

but even by just do­ing a tiny good thing to the peo­ple around us,

one can leave an im­pact.
 

What hu­man­i­ty? runs through 11 Feb­ru­ary 2024.

 

—pur­ples­finx

Flom­mist Veroni­ka Veziro­va, a.k.a. Pur­ples­finx, is an il­lus­tra­tor and graph­ic de­sign­er based in Barcelona. In­spired by cul­ture of all kinds, she writes on top­ics that in­clude art his­to­ry, cre­ativ­i­ty and folk­lore. Her oth­er works in­clude man­ga and psy­che­del­ic po­et­ry. Copy­right © 2023 Veroni­ka Veziro­va.

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