Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofia - Pinakothek art museum and a library with 40 000 volumes , which together with the Prado and the Thyssen -Bornemisza Art Madrid's Golden Triangle . Madrid ironically called him Sofidu by analogy with the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Since 1986Reina Sofia Museum functioned as the exhibition center for contemporary art , specializing in sculpture. Officially, the National Museum Art Center Reina Sofia was opened September 10, 1992 the royal couple - Don Juan Carlos and Sofia Doney .This building is an old hospital, now famous for the fact that it assembled a superb collection of modern painting.
The origin of the building, which houses the museum dates back to ancient times . Already in 1566, during the reign of Philip II, the idea to gather in one building, numerous centers and shelters scattered throughout Madrid.Thirty years later, under Philip III, was the first shelter was erected in the streets of Santa Isabel. To him gradually added other facilities : Hospital Santa Catalina and Hospital de la Pason . And the resulting complex was named the main hospital .After some changes have occurred in the second half of XVIII century, Charles III ordered the project architect Francisco Sabatini, the hospital , which was to carry it over the building, already begun by Hermosillo and conceived during the reign of Fernando VI.However, Sabatini was unable to complete the work and built the only part of what has been provided by the plans.
, along with other artists on two floors of the museum housed famous works of representatives of Spanish avant-garde .
and well-known contemporary artists such as: .
The museum provides insight into the development of art in the XX century. to this day.It features works by artists such as Zuloaga , Nonel , Solana , Anglada Kamarasa , Iturrino , avant-garde 20 - 30s . Julio Gonzalez , Maria Banchard , Pablo Gargalo , Max Ernst . School of Paris is represented by works Boresa , Cassio, Benjamín Palencia , Vinesa and Vasquez Diaz.The Surrealists - Dali works , Miro, Togoresa , Tanguy, Magritte , abstract informalisty - works Chirino , Kanogara , Turner , Ribera, Mompo , Saura , Viola, Milyaresa , Lucio Munez , Sobel , Guerrero, Rueda , Pablo Serrano, Barnett Newman.
The most famous exhibit of the Art Centre Reina Sofia is Pablo Picasso's Guernica .It also demonstrates the sketches and studies , allowing to trace the history of the creation of a masterpiece .
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