HISPANIC ART: A Historical Look at Visual Art in

Spain

GOALS Explore expressive art forms of the Spain

Explore how customs and beliefs of the Spain are reflected in its art forms and work.

Recognize some of Spain’s renown artistic contributions to the world community.

VISUAL ARTS OF SPAIN

Cave Paintings. Mosaics. Painting. Architecture. Cinema.

CAVE PAINTINGS(14,000-2000

B.C.E.)

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

black

MEDITERRANEAN LEVANTINE REGION

Minateda paintings located on the Iberian Peninsula near Murcia

Dated around 6,000 to 2,000 B.C.E.

MOSAICS(600-900 C.E.)

Islamic Influence Usually limited to floral patterns and

geometric shapes Cordoba Mosque

Alhambra Palace (Granada)

PAINTING

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Blue Period

(1901-1904)The Old Guitarist

Rose Period (1905-1907)Garçon à la pipe

African-Influenced Period (1908-1909)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 (1909-1919)Portrait of Daniel-

Henry Kahnweiler

OTHER PICASSSO PROJECTS Sculpture

Chicago Picasso (1967)

Pottery Draughtsman

SALVADOR DALI(1904-1989)

SurrealismMost Famous: The Persistence of Memory

(1931)

CubismPortrait of a

Seated Person Holding a Letter (1923)

Avant-GardeThe Dali Atomicus

(1948)

Nuclear MysticismThe

Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968-1970)

OTHER DALÍ PROJECTS Film

Collaborated with film director Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou (1929)

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)

ARCHITECTURE

Roman InfluenceTheater in Mérida Roman conquest of Spain

around 218 B.C.E ; theater built around 25 B.C.E

Islamic Influence (7th Century through the 15th Century)Palace of

Aljafería, Zaragoza

Romanesque (10th and 11th Centuries)Catedral de

Santiago de Compostela

Gothic (12th Century)Catedral de

Burgos-Fernán González

Renaissance (15th Century)Palace of Charles

V, Granada

Baroque (17th Century)Royal Palace of

Madrid

Neoclassical (18th and 19th Centuries)Prado Museum,

designed by Juan de Villanueva (1819)

Modernism (20th and 21st Centuries)Ciatat de les Arts i

les Ciènces, Valencia