![Ramon Casas (1866–1932). Bullfighting Ring. Undated. Oil on canvas. 60 x 70 cm. Fragment. Private collection, Barcelona. Courtesy Galeria Senda. Publicity photo](/userfiles/images/apmekle/pasakumi/makslas-izstades-ekspozicijas/2024/03/1_rcasas_versu-arena-m.jpg?w=780&mode=3%3A2%7Ccrop&s=d27453575aa91ec012fe34fd747fad64)
The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Kadriorg Art Museum (Art Museum of Estonia). Works of art from 15 Spanish museums and private collections are displayed.
In Spanish art, questions regarding the Spanish identity and the creation of a national image began to arise in the 19th century. As the country underwent modernisation, the two opposing approaches to conveying the image of Spain collided: the idea of a bright and buoyant white Spain and the idea of a dark and grave black Spain that drew on the deepest layers of the cultural heritage. Between and alongside these two opposites, Catalan modernist painting began to flourish at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, combining the picturesqueness and colour sensitivity of white Spain and the intellectuality of black Spain.