Gerhard Richter
Image creditGerhard Richter, Schein, 1994. Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación ”la Caixa” © Gerhard Richter

At a glance

Around 1 hour

Blur stops being a mistake and becomes one of modern art's most powerful ways of seeing.

Why go

An immediately understandable premise connects Monet's legacy with modern and contemporary experiments in perception.

You'll see

Painting · Photography · Abstraction · Blur · Modern and contemporary art

Pace of visit

Closes 27 September. Accessible even without extensive art-history knowledge.

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Compare works where blur suggests speed, memory, atmosphere or pure abstraction.

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Move backward from the works: sometimes less detail gives you more image.

Inside the exhibition

Description

The exhibition examines how the loss of sharp definition became a deliberate artistic language after Monet. Blur can destabilise reality, suggest movement or memory, dissolve the subject or push an image toward abstraction.

Style / Art Movement

Impressionism legacy · Modernism · Abstraction · Contemporary Art

Exhibition

Desenfocado. Otra visión del arte

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