The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao present a selection of nearly 70 masterpieces by significant artists that illustrates the history of MAM’s collection. The exhibition at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao also offers an overview of the avant-garde artistic movements born in Paris during the first decades of the 20th century.
Organized chronologically in three sections, from the beginning of the 20th century to the period following WWII, the show tracesan historical perspective of the main protagonists involved in these pivotal artistic movements.
It opens with representative works of Fauvism and Cubism, emphasizing those artists whose audacious freedom revolutionized art and changed traditional perception of landscape, human figure, and still life. This is followed by the generation of international artists who conceived the School of Paris during the interwar period. and a presentation of artists involved with Surrealism, founded in 1924 and led by the poet André Breton in Paris.
