If you are looking for a vacation centered in five-star hotels, Spain is one of Europe’s more splendid and interesting countries. With an enormously complicated and fascinating history, Spain has been at the center of some of the world’s greatest turning points. Our hotel accommodations puts you in the heart of Spain’s great cities, where you can live in the extremes of luxury and prepare yourself to have new adventures in a country deeply connected in cosmopolitan culture while remaining fiercely connected to local identities. We offer amenities that meet the highest standards in the industry, in service, cuisine, facilities, technological connectivity, and hospitality, plus we offer loads of extras to distinguish your stay here and make for memories that will last a lifetime.
Some of the best minds in the world are drawn to Spain, for its achievements in science, philosophy, architecture, and art. In the art world, Spain has always played a major role, living at the center of most world art movements, and often creating movements of its own. IN the 20th century, one of the most influential movements in art was surrealism, and Spanish Surrealism contributed in a very important way, and continues to influence contemporary art through the surrealist touches from its artists. Surrealism is an art movement that came from the remains of Dadaism, taking its chaotic and playful spirit, and combining it with the new developments of Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking the language of dreams as the most visible way that the subconscious speaks to the conscious mind, the visual art became a representation of dreamscapes interrupting the flow of waking life.
Two obvious Spanish artists working with Surrealist techniques are Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Both have left legacies that are immeasurable, and their work can be seen all over the world, but Spain offers some excellent museums where their original works can be observed. Dali’s Theatre Museum in Figueres is one of the best opportunities to dig in to the history of surrealism first-hand. There are also the films of Luis Buñuel, who collaborated with Dalí at one time, and who has redefined cinematic language. For Spanish-descended artists who contributed to the school of Surrealism and who have created a new artistic language that falls outside of formal Surrealism, we can look at the iconic Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varos in México, to find roots for the next waves of contemporary dream language in visual art. These artists offer contributions to world art that are still evolving, but certainly have roots in the tenets of classical Surrealism, and carry Spain’s artistic genius in the diaspora.