The exhibition "Lluïsa Vidal (1876-1918)" will show all the artistic facets of this major painter, cartoonist and illustrator who belonged to the generation of young Catalan Modernista artists. Lluïsa Vidal was noted as a highly valued portrait painter for her ability to reveal the emotional state of the person portrayed.

The exhibition will be completed by a documentation section featuring family photographs, letters, photographs of works by the painter published in magazines, published books with her illustrations, reviews of her exhibitions in various newspapers of the time and the diploma awarded to the painter in 1907 by the city of Barcelona for one of her drawings.

The exhibition provides the chance to become better acquainted with the later paintings of Edvard Munch and his influence on the Danish artist Asger Jorn´s body of work. By focusing on Munch the painter, new perspectives can be found on the free, spontaneous and gestural aspects of Munch´s paintings as perceived by Jorn in the late 1940s

The museum is presenting for the first time a selection of works, including paintings, photographs and texts, that attest to the links of Santiago Rusiñol with the province of Girona.

The Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is preparing an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ramon Casas (1866-1932). The show will bring to light an interesting series of previously unseen visual works by the artist.

This exceptional collection of works by Casas that is conserved by the museum has recently been enriched by a very original, strange and unique addition: a series of 12 Chinese shadow puppets designed by Casas and cut and made by Josep Meifrèn, brother of the painter Eliseu Meifrèn and member of the circle of friends of Els Quatre Gats. This is a unique collection of its kind that establishes a clear relationship with modernity.

The exhibition will also include other visual elements such as posters, photographs, drawings, invitations and programmes, many of which have never been seen before and form part of the museum´s collection. All this artistic and documentary material will help to contextualise the origins of the recreational practices that symbolised the need for escape that Barcelona artists felt at the time, such as Chinese shadows, puppet shows or an interest in the circus.

The invention of photography in 1839 was both fascinating and horrifying to artists. While portraitists had good reason to fear a drastic shrink in their market, others soon discovered the multiple possibilities of the new medium.

The exhibition presents an opportunity to consider Franz von Stuck´s work in graphic art, painting, sculpture, and photography, both interrelated and as a whole, and to examine his wide impact on Viennese art. It fills a gap and sheds fresh light on fin-de-siècle Vienna and its productive links with Munich´s "painter prince" Franz von Stuck.

"Summer Idyll: Picturesque Views of California" is a glorious celebration of summer in the Golden State that combines works by California artists, contemporary and historic, painted over the last one hundred years.

The exhibition explores the extraordinary enthusiasm with which artists used the color woodcut technique in Vienna between 1900-1910. The installation presents outstanding loans from the great Viennese museums and institutions, as well as from estates and private collections.