Museo Nacional de Arte

Exhibitions

Landscapes of the mind

British landscaping. Tate Collection 1690-2007

25 de Mar 2015 - 24 de Jun 2015

This exhibition sought to trace the development of the greatest contribution of Great Britain to European art. From Gainsborough and Stubbs to J.M.W Turner and Constable, from Whistler and Nicholson to David Hockney, British art has been defined by the work of landscapers. The exhibition, composed by 111 pieces, began with the greatest topographic painters of the 18th century and go from Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelism, Impressionism, passing through Vanguards and the Modernism of the last century, showing the vitality of the landscape genre in the 21st century.

The exhibition allowed establishing a linkage between traditional art and the contemporaneous, making possible the understanding of the processes that conducted to the representation of the landscape until today. This project, of great importance, represented a binational collaboration between Mexico and Great Britain in order to spread a heritage never seen before in our country.