La Lonja, the scene of the splendor of modernism in the visual arts.

Zaragoza, May 11 .- The Renaissance Palace of La Lonja de Zaragoza will be converted from tomorrow and until June 27 at the scene was one of the most fertile periods of culture and the art of Barcelona at the end of the nineteenth century , Modernism, a movement that is reflected in all the visual arts of the time.

"The Adventure modernist", driven by the Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya and the city of Zaragoza, synthetic sample so the push was at that time in the city of Barcelona this type of art, arrived from Europe through the so-called Art Nouveau and fruit of the industrial revolution had begun in the mid eighteenth century, explained at a press conference Alex Susanna, director of the Social Culture of the savings bank.

The exhibition presents some ninety works from paintings, sculptures, drawings, posters and decorative arts that seek to provide an overall picture of modernism as a movement of global transformation of Catalan culture, from which Barcelona begins to regain the splendor had been in the Middle Ages and put back on the map of the great cultural cities.

What is today Barcelona, has said Susanna, "owes it to the visionary capacity" of those artists and the support they received from the Catalan bourgeoisie , qin shi huang,without whose money those "geniuses have not been able to give what they gave of itself."

Characters to include figures such as Gaudi, Puig, Domenech i Montaner, Houses, Rusinol, Nonell, Mir, Homar, Busquets, Blay, Limona Arnau and brothers, among others.

They represent a sample of the variety of options and the wealth of nuances of the moment, from the cosmopolitan and modern impressionist sign, through the assimilation of symbolism and expressionism, to get to the decorative arts, the true protagonists of the movement modernist its presence in everyday life.

Modernism was a short period that emerged from the Barcelona Universal Exposition of 1888 and that lasted until 1911 with the arrival of novecentismo lulled by Eugenio Dors and a return to classical art, as explained Donate Marce, curator of the Museum exhibition and responsible Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, from where the pieces.