Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition in Barcelona
Toulouse-Lautrec Barcelona Exhibition 2018
The whole year around, Barcelona Caixa Forum holds an exhibition dedicated to French artist Toulouse-Lautrec! Caixa Forum was designed by celebrated Catalan modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, it was originally a textile factory and featured a number of spacious halls that now lend themselves perfectly to exhibiting art. It also offers guided tours, which includes a visit to the beautiful rooftop. For a perfect accomodation, BCN Apartment Rentals offers you the best luxury apartments in the heart of Barcelona, with the best design, location, security and comfort.
The streets, cabarets and cafes of the Montmartre district in Paris were the creative explosion, marked by the bohemian and the avant-garde scene. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Louis Forain, T. A. Steinlen, Pierre Bonnard or Édouard Vuillard contributed to theflourishing of a breakthrough movement outside the bourgeoisie. The artworks of Toulouse-Lautrec is instantly recognisable by its strong colour, portrayals of a Parisian lifestyle at the end of the 19th century, and posters advertising everything from recitals to bikes. A debutant of the post-Impressionist movement, he produced hundreds of works before his early death at 36.
The Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at Caixa Forum Barcelona consists of more than 350 works with international loans from public and private collections. It represents a journey through the centuries-old bohemian Paris and looks back to the artist's years spent in Montmartre, his nocturnal life and relationship with the cabarets and underworld of the French capital, through a series of paintings, posters and other items. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition made to understand the fundamental role that the spirit of Paris and Montmartre had in the development of modern art, and the way in which Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries influenced the evolution of ephemeral artistic production: posters, illustrations, prints and designs, which expanded the bohemian spirit and artistic creations to new audiences.
The schedule of the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at Caixa Forum is as following: September - June: daily, from 10am to 8pm. July and August: daily, from 10am to 8pm. Wenesday, from 10am to 11pm. January 5th, December 24th and 31st: from 10am to 6pm. Closed: January 1st and 6th and December 5th. Do not miss this opportunity to discover Barcelona, enjoy its proposals and get to know the city better with our luxury apartments by BCN Apartment Rentals.
