Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life

Luis Meléndez was the greatest still life painter of eighteenth-century Spain and one of the greatest painters of the genre in all Europe. Though his life was tragic—he was kicked out of art academy, overshadowed by Goya, and died a pauper—there is no evidence of his struggles in his extraordinary body of work, on view at LAMCA in Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life. Discover the precision, sheer beauty, and delicious compositions that made the artist a true visionary who led the way for modern artists like Giorgio Morandi and Paul Cézanne.

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This exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

RELATED EVENT:

Exhibition Lecture: Luis Meléndez

September 26 | 2 pm

To mark the opening of Luis Meléndez, exhibition co-curator Gretchen A. Hirschauer, associate curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, discusses the artist’s meticulous painting method.

This lecture was made possible in part through the Brotman Foundation Special Exhibitions Lecture Fund.

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