Style and Art

“Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History” brings together for the first time works by the greatest spanish masters from the 16th through the 20th century.
Art historians have classified Spanish painting between El Greco and Goya, maintaining that 20th-century avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Surrealism—Pioneered by artists of Spanish origin—broke completely with the traditions that preceded them. Today we have enough perspective to see that, despite their revolutionary aesthetic leaps, the great artists of the early 20th century were inspired by traditional models that were, in essence, local in character.

“Spanish Painting From El Greco to Picasso” opens today and continues through March 28, 2007 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street; (212) 423-3500.