Reina Sofia Museum shared a very Elche Art History gem: a collage of artist and poet Jiri Kolar in true Magritte style, Lady of Elche It leaves its place to a lot of football history.
The story behind this collage is actually a commemoration story: This is one of the works done on the occasion of the collage. Football World Cup held in Spain in 1982. To make a series of posters in honor of the event, a group of the most involved artists of the period was commissioned to work, inspired by the places where the matches were played. Inspired by Elche in Kolár.
The poster shows the “masked” lady with a central image. Henri Rousseau ‘Les joueurs de football)’, from 1908. The “window” through which the image of the painting is viewed is an Elche Lady. The soccer ball, which was a brown leather “classic” in the original painting, has been replaced by a much larger contemporary ball, implying the intent to give the Lady and the World Cup a central position on the poster.
Alechinsky and his ‘dribbling’ for Alicante
A poster inspired by the city of Elche was not created for this event: since one of the World Cup matches was also held at Rico Pérez, the state capital had its own poster. heat Pierre Alechinskytitled “dribbling” represents the movement of the ball during an individual game.
State in the “nets” of Reina Sofia
This isn’t the first time Museo Reina Sofia has shared images of the state on its social media initiatives. via hashtag #DespiertaConArte He recently shared an intriguing work by the artist from Alicante. Emilio Varela (1887-1951), a student of Joaquín Sorolla, who developed various styles, including cubism.
The work shared by the Madrid Museum, which describes Varela as “a great master of painting and colour”,‘Blue Shore to Peñón de Ifach’It’s dated 1923.
you see in the picture From an image that could well be described by Peñón de Ifach, Gabriel Miró or Carmelina Sánchez Cutillas: in this picture you can see the field, the sea, and the rock illuminated only by the sun. Faced with such an idyllic (and ancient) image, multiple Internet users came to post a somewhat sarcastic, forceful tweet. “Where are the apartments?”
Reina Sofia also shared images of different cities taken in 1880, including one of the province’s capitals and other cities such as Barcelona, u200bu200bSeville, Santander, Cádiz, Cartagena or San Sebastián, in old images of the province of Alicante.
Through this initiative, the museum invited people to get to know various places, although they have changed over time.