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Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though particularly present in Germany and Austria, the movement’s approach flourished internationally and is today hailed as one of the most influential shifts in art history. With leading groups Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and key players such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, and Emil Nolde, the Expressionists disowned Impressionism, which they regarded as “man lowered to the position of a gramophone record of the outer world”, to depict instead a raw and visceral experience of life as it was felt, rather than seen on the surface. Their paintings brim with emotive force, conveyed in particular through intense and non-naturalistic color palettes, loose brushwork, and thick textures.

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909–1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were also among the first in art history to depict overtly homosexual themes.

De Yung Beef a C. Tangana o Rosalía: la historia de la generación musical más excitante de nuestro tiempo. Detrás del contrato entre PXXR GVNG y Sony, de la actuación de Rosalía en los Goya, de la lona de C. Tangana en la Gran Vía de Madrid o de la entrevista de La Zowi en La Resistencia se esconde la historia más fascinante sobre un relevo generacional. Una nueva escena marcada por internet y por la falta de prejuicios en una década de momentos traducidos en rupturas aceleradas. La conversación política, estética y afectiva a través de la música que ha sido la más seguida en tiempo real. Nuevas formas de entender la industria; sobreproducción de música e imágenes, de memes y virales. Una serie de acontecimientos que nos hacen dudar de si lo que hemos vivido es realidad o simulacro.