Aprendiendo a pintar la luz
El Banco de España ha organizado un taller familiar vinculado a la exposición «Alegorías de un porvenir» que invitaba a descubrir, desde una mirada participativa y cercana, las vidrieras «art déco» que coronan la claraboya del Patio de Operaciones. Los participantes del taller pudieron recrear sobre acetato algunos fragmentos de este singular conjunto decorativo que data de la década de 1930.
José María Cruz Novillo, a key figure in rebranding democratic Spain, dies aged 89
Cruz Novillo created some of the most iconic logos of recent decades for Spanish public and private bodies. The Banco de España commissioned him to design the penultimate series of peseta banknotes prior to the introduction of the euro. The bank’s collection also contains two works by the artist, a sculpture (‘Untitled’ [1976]) and a painting (‘Diaphragm One. Phase Four’ [1993]). Cruz Novillo also had a prodigious career designing film posters.
Art as witness and agent: the impact of social change on the visual imagery of the 1920s and 1930s
A tour of some of the pictures and sculptures from the Banco de España Collection on display in 'Allegories of What is to Come', exploring the relationship between art, labour and nation-building and highlighting Art Deco’s important role as an embodiment of modernist values. Featured items include work by Joaquín Sorolla, Benjamín Palencia, José Gutiérrez Solana and José de Olivares.
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