By Eugenio Cajés."What saves the show from being merely a hodge-podge of Spanish treasures can be summed up in a word: realism. It is not the explicitly stated theme, but it is, in one way or another, an urgent concern for the exhibition's most interesting artists.
The fruitful complexities and contradictions of realism most fully emerge in religious paintings. In officially Catholic Spain, the creation of devotional images was much encouraged. The more naturalistically rendered they were, the better, because they would impress the minds of the faithful that much more persuasively."
The fruitful complexities and contradictions of realism most fully emerge in religious paintings. In officially Catholic Spain, the creation of devotional images was much encouraged. The more naturalistically rendered they were, the better, because they would impress the minds of the faithful that much more persuasively."
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