Barcelona & Modernity

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in association with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona, this is the first exhibition in North America to examine a remarkable 71-year period (1868-1939) when Barcelona transformed itself from a city of provincial culture into one of the most dynamic centers of modernist art and architecture in Europe. The exhibition features more than 300 artworks in a variety of media: paintings, sculptures, posters, photographs, textiles, furniture, decorative objects, architectural designs and models. Masterworks are being borrowed from museums and private collections around the world, including a substantial number from CMA’s own permanent collection. Original documentary materials and innovative computer interactives will provide contextual information about Barcelona and its art.

The Cleveland presentation of this exhibition is sponsored by Baker Hostetler. The exhibition was organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, and is supported in part by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and through grants from the Institut Ramon Llull and the Generalitat de Catalunya, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. Additional funding is provided in part by the generous support of the citizens of Cuyahoga County. The Barcelona & Modernism Symposium is presented through the generous support of the Institut Ramon Llull.

Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí
Salvador Dalí, Antoni Gaudí, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso