The Shock of the New

The Mechanical Paradise

Sep 21, 198060 min

The irruption of the machine as a catalyst for the change in the forms and visions of artists in the early twentieth century. Cubism and Futurism as the movement of modern world and embodied in a canvas.

The Powers That Be

Sep 28, 198060 min

After the WW1 art is not indifferent to the change that the catastrophe had been. A provocative and ironic art, Dadaism was continued by militant leftist artists in Germany. In Russia, the communist revolution attracted modern artists to th

The Landscape of Pleasure

Oct 5, 1980

Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.

Trouble in Utopia

Oct 12, 1980

The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.

The Threshold of Liberty

Oct 19, 1980

Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.

The View from the Edge

Oct 26, 1980

The interior of the mind, the obsessions and the forces that dominate life, form the work of modern artists from van Gogh and Munch, to the American abstract expressionists.