Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: The Fair
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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The Fair
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Alternate Title:
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La verbena
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Image View:
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Detail, shooting gallery and at bottom, beggar with guitar
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Creator:
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Maruja Mallo (Spanish painter, 1902-1995)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS01985
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Location Note:
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52 Santa Isabel Street
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GPS:
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+40.408889-3.694444
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Date:
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1927 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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Style Period:
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Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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119 cm (height) x 165 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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genre; recreation and games; festivals
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Description:
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In 1928, at a one-woman exhibition put on by Ortega y Gasset in the rooms of the Revista de Occidente, Maruja Mallo showed the four oil paintings in the Madrid Fair series of which La verbena (The Fair) is one. Imbued with a sharp critical sense, which is translated by the painter into subtle satire, the painting contains all the elements of the traditional popular Madrid fairs (the shooting gallery, the test-your-strength machine), alongside the principal characters and other, stranger kinds of characters like the one-eyed giant, the priest enjoying one of the sideshows or the man with deformed feet, begging with a guitar on his back. All this contributes to an undeniably Surrealist atmosphere. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MALLO-MRS-SF-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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