Articles of category "Barcelona sightseeing"

At the official opening of the National Art Museum of Catalonia on December 16, 2004, the Mayor said, "Today is an important day for the Catalan culture... Today, the city of Barcelona ends a process that began a hundred years ago -a hundred years! - creating, protecting and giving life to the most important museum in Catalonia, the museum that explains a thousand years of our culture, our history as a country and our identity." And it fully explains it...

His works stroke the world of art as a definitely new approach to things we see, feel and touch; his name was granted to the asteroid; his art inspired his numerous pupils like Edgar Froese and Ernst Fuchs. His thousands of paintings are treasures in world-renowned museums, and his dozens of sculptures, a great number of drawings, designs for theater sets and costumes, and illustrations for books form a precious artistic heritage of Spain.