Salvador Dali (Soft Construction with Boiled Beans   Premonition of Civil War), 1936, oil on canvas 100 x 99 cm

Artists, intellectuals and anarchy – sounds like just what Cleveland needs? It worked for Barcelona!

The Cleveland Museum of Art reopens October 15th with an absolutely incredible exhibition that is not to be missed: “Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali.” Any one of these artists would be a huge draw for a museum exhibition -- Cleveland is lucky enough to get an exhibition with all four. This exhibition, for the first time, puts these four great artists and their contemporaries into the context of the unique city of Barcelona and the region of Catalonia. The show includes hundreds of works (painting, sculpture, prints, textiles, decorative arts; furniture, ceramics, jewelry) never before seen together by masters you should be familiar with and their contemporaries -- they will amaze you as well.

Long neglected in the cannon of art history, Barcelona is a unique place in Spain – and the world -- and a hotbed for anarchism, and passionate politics. Though Paris has long tried to steal all the credit, Barcelona was a fertile creative center for some of the most important artists of the last century. This exhibition promises to features exciting use of technology to truly engage visitors.

Tours of the exhibition by experienced and well trained guides are available for groups; corporate, school, churches, clubs. etc. to schedule onecontact Shannon Masterson @ the CMA: 216-707-2477