21 de Nov 2013 - 06 de Jul 2014
This exhibition focused on the Mexican painter Félix Parra Hernández who was born in Michoacán and studied in the former Academy of San Carlos. The exhibition proposed to highlight the acquisition of The National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) from the Fondo Félix Parra in 2008 and its inheritance to the Museo Nacional de Arte. At the same time, it showed documents regarding the life and teaching of Parra, as well as the development of oils and watercolors that, later on, he carried out under an eclectic modality and changing themes as a product of the assimilation of the international modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The exhibition allowed the public to understand the eclectic sense of this production, distant from the romantic and nationalist academicism of the restored Republic but closer to the thematic and stylistic lessons of the Impressionism and Realism, as well as the gradual change to other types of modernist tendencies fin de siècle. The curatorial proposal was developed by the team of the Museo Nacional de Arte and the exhibition was embodied by 106 pieces that constitute the collection of the museum.