Tomas Llorens (1936–2021)

The museum contains close to 1000 paintings, including 220 works of art from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection that were added in 2004, taking you on a journey through the history of European painting from the thirteenth century right up to the late twentieth century. The paintings are displayed chronologically and by style, allowing visitors to follow the most important artistic movements of western painting, from Italian Primitive paintings to the late Surrealist period and the show more development of Pop art in the 1960s, together with the endurance of the figurative tradition in modern art.

The Museum’s collection acts as a counterpart to the other two museums that form the triangle known as the Paseo de Arte or Art Walk: it complements the collections of ancient artwork contained in the Prado Museum and twentieth century artwork housed in the Reina Sofía Museum, with additional movements and styles not included in these two museums, thus providing a more complete picture: Primitive Italian and Dutch painters, the German Renaissance, seventeenth century Dutch art, Impressionism, German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction and Pop Art. It also has an outstanding collection of nineteenth century American art, which is practically unknown in Europe, to which the Museum dedicates four of its exhibition rooms. show less

First edition 1989. Text in Spanish. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition at IVAM and Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid by Ministerio de Cultura, Spain.

Buen catálogo, y buenos textos, para una exposición que fue extraordinaria. Aunque faltaron algunos de los cuadros más populares del pintor norteamericano, estuvieron muchos otros y el conjunto es sobresaliente. Aquí están esas pinturas, junto con otras que permiten ver las influencias y paralelismos de Edward Hopper con otros autores inmediatamente anteriores o contemporáneos. Los textos, como digo, bastante buenos. A veces el texto más largo, dedicado al análisis pictórico y, a la show more vez, diacrónico de la obra de Hopper, peca un poco de recargado y presuntuoso, pero así escriben los franceses, especialmente si son críticos de arte. Su compañero y co-comisario de la exposición, que diserta sobre "la fortuna crítica de Edward Hopper" es bastante más conciso. Ambos artículos nos ayudan a entender mejor a este pintor tremendamente popular y, de algún modo, aislado entre los artistas del Nuevo Mundo. show less

Conferencias del Simposio Arquitectura y Ciudad: Vanguardia y Contiuidad, celebradas en Valencia los dias 21-24 abril de 1980: Oriol Bohigas, Giogio Grassi, Tomás Llorens, Robert Maxwell, Fernando Montes, Demetri Porphyrios, Ignasi Solá-Morales