HISPANIC ART: A Historical Look at Visual Art in

Spain

GOALS 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.

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 (Mediterranean coast)

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

MOSAICS(600-900 C.E.)

Islamic Influence on Spanish culture Usually limited to floral patterns and

geometric shapes Cordoba Mosque

Alhambra Palace (Granada)

PAINTING

TWO GREAT ARTISTS OF 20TH CENTURY

Pablo PicassoBest known for his

“Cubism” piecesAlso known for

symbolism and surrealism

Considered “Father of Modern Art”

SculpturePotteryDraughtsman

Salvador DalíBest known for

his surrealism pieces

Also known for avant-garde, cubism, nuclear mysticism

Film surrealismAutobiography

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

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

ESPAÑA

Cave PaintingsMosaics

SculptureCubism

SurrealismArchitecture

Cinema