Image creditMarisa Pinazo Portrait of his Son Francisco, c. 1948 Oil on canvas 78 x 63 cm. Private collection

At a glance

Three generations, one artistic bloodline: a family story where painting becomes inheritance, rebellion, memory, and modernity.

Artlovers Tip

A beautiful IVAM stop for anyone interested in the hidden threads of art history — how style, talent and memory travel through a family, and how each generation has to find its own light.

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Meet the artist

Ignacio, José, and Marisa Pinazo

Description

This exhibition brings together the work of Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench, his son José Pinazo Martínez, and his granddaughter Marisa Pinazo Mitjans — three generations of one of Valencia’s key artistic families.

The show is not only about family influence. It is about how art changes when it passes from one generation to the next. Ignacio represents the powerful Valencian modern painter, with intimate portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. José begins under his father’s shadow, then moves towards a more personal, refined regionalism. Marisa, less known and rarely seen in museum contexts, brings the story into the 20th century with a more modern sensibility, linked to drawing, still life, portraiture and Art Deco echoes.

The exhibition includes family portraits, self-portraits, domestic scenes, landscapes, still lifes and works that show the transmission of artistic language across time. One of the most beautiful ideas is the visual chain: Ignacio paints his son José as a child painting; José paints Marisa drawing; Marisa later paints her own family world. Art becomes biography.

Worth travelling for?

Because this exhibition makes Valencian modernity feel intimate.

Instead of presenting art history as a list of isolated geniuses, The Aura of a Modern Saga shows creativity as something inherited, resisted, transformed and lived at home. You see influence, but also distance. You see admiration, but also the need to become someone else.

For Artlovers, it is worth the trip because it opens a quieter, more human way to understand modern art: not through spectacle, but through family, rooms, faces, gestures, and the slow evolution from Naturalism and Modernism to regionalist painting and Art Deco sensibility.

Experience as an Artlover

Look at it like a family album — but one where every image is also a battle for artistic identity.

Start with Ignacio, then follow José, then Marisa. Ask yourself: what is inherited? What is rejected? What becomes softer, clearer, stranger, more modern?

And pay special attention to Marisa Pinazo. The exhibition gives visibility to an artist whose work has often remained in the background. That rediscovery may be one of the most important reasons to visit.

Exhibition

The aura of a modern saga: Ignacio, José, and Marisa Pinazo

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IVAM Art Modern Institute Museum of Valencia

Valencia, Spain

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