More Female and Foreign Artists in the Prado
January 22 2021
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Guardian have published an article that the Prado Museum in Madrid will be rehanging their collections to feature more female and 'foreign' artists. The museum leaders have said that the covid lockdown has provided an opportunity to rethink the current schemes some of which are, in their own words, "anachronistic and perpetuated 19th-century historiographical models."
The museum's director Miguel Falomir has been quoted as saying:
There are artistic phenomena and artists who have been totally excluded until now – not just women but aspects as important as social painting, which hadn’t found a place in the 19th-century collection … or painting from different parts of the world, such as the Philippines, whose art is finding itself more and more appreciated.
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There are also whole periods in the history of art and whole regions that have been excluded. Bit by bit, we’re going to have a more inclusive Prado when it comes to this.
