18 de May 2014 - 21 de Nov 2014
As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the first Plein Air Painting School, this exhibition offered a review of the artworks belonging to the main students and teachers, involved in its development. This exhibition’s main goal was showing the plastic production carried out by different artists who were part of the generation that emerged from the break up with the Academy of San Carlos. This generation went on strike in 1911, which gave, as a result, the naming of Alfredo Ramos Martínez as director of the Academy in 1913 and the creation of the Plein Air Painting School of Santa Anita. The project emphasizes the development of teaching and the production of painting in plein air derived from the processes of artistic education in crisis, disaggregation, and reintegration. It gave, as a result, the creation of the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving “La Esmeralda” in 1943. The curatorial proposal of this exhibition was developed by the team of the Museo Nacional de Arte.