EXPOSICION DE ARTISTAS NAVARROS

Poster promoting the First Exposition of Artists of Navarre, held in Pamplona in 1940. The period between 1940 and 1960 was really peculiar for the artists of Navarre: the Civil War was over, the Francoist regime had begun. The First Exposition of Artists of Navarre was the first milestone of this period: the regime exhibited the artists who survived the war and aligned to the regime. Spanish postwar is often regarded as a period of artistic regression: this is untrue, as a lot of artists realized interesting works, although isolated from the main art movements of the time. The difficult economic situation damaged the art market, especially in Navarre: the artists did not abandon the easel painting, but they specialized in other fields, too: graphic illustration, posters, mural painting, stage design.