Artists and creators: genius and creativity of Spanish artists

Styles

In this section you can search all our contents throughout the different stages in the history of art in Spain, to find styles such as Baroque, Gothic, Mudejar and many, many more.

Modernism and Avant-garde movements The turn of the century brought new winds of modernity. The aesthetic sensibility of the time was marked by a different, freer attitude towards art and life.

Topics

In this section you can search among all our contents by topic to find the different resources available in Spain, such as museums, routes, destinations, monuments and many, many more.

Audience

This section provides access to all the contents in a personalised way, according to your own particular interests and socio-demographic profile.

Professionals

Innovation in culture

Autonomous Regions

This section provides access to the contents in each autonomous region by browsing through maps.

Artists and creators

Creative genius casts off the restraints of literary tradition, intellectual movements and artistic styles. These creators will always be associated with the period in which they lived and the literary, artistic or intellectual schools that spawned them. However, their genius is such that with their work they revitalise, invigorate, shape and ultimately transcend these movements. In Spain, personalities of this type have left their imprint on all the artistic disciplines. We only have to think of Velázquez, Goya, Picasso and Dalí in painting; or Cervantes, Quevedo and Lorca in literary creation... and there are many, many more. Their genius was limitless and has been recognised as such all over the world.

Juan Genovés - The artist, who died recently, painted the iconic work “El abrazo” (The Embrace), a symbol of Spain’s transition to democracy. His paintings of multitudes and solitudes are a touchstone of contemporary art. See more