MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES
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Superb museum in the heart of the Recoleta gardens, with 16 rooms featuring works by Argentine and Uruguayan painters.
Inaugurated on Christmas Day, 1896, and located in the heart of the Recoleta gardens, this superb museum presents approximately 11,000 works, not all of which are on display at the same time. It is very large, beautifully lit and highlighted, with explanations at the entrance to each room putting the works on display in perspective and relating them to each artistic movement. In 2015, Cristina Kirchner inaugurated 16 new rooms, allowing for the exhibition of nearly 300 additional works by 20th century Argentine painters.
The first floor offers a panorama of Western art, from the Middle Ages to the present day (a collection of 19th-century French works). The oldest work is a Virgin and Child from the 12th century. Paintings by Picasso, Monet, De Chirico, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Degas, Klee, Léger, Goya, El Greco, Rubens or Tiepolo (among others).
On the secondfloor , Argentine art is honored, with a wide range of artists such as Morel, García del Molino, the masters of the nineteenth century (Pueyrredón, de la Cárcova, Sívori ...) or those of the 20th century: Fader (post-impressionist painter of rural life from 1910-1920), Xul Solar (prolific surrealist), Pettoruti (genius of Argentine cubism), Berni (painter and muralist master of portraits). This is really the section not to be missed if you only have to do one. Several works by talented Uruguayan painters like Rafael Barradas, Joaquín Torres García or Pedro Figari.
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