20th and 21st Centuries

The final spaces of the Museum show how Modernisme and Noucentisme transformed Catalan art at the beginning of the 20th century.

Modernisme proposed an aesthetic renewal that recreated nature without copying it and reinterpreted history, with notable works by Santiago Rusiñol. Noucentisme, by contrast, emerged in opposition and was conceived more as a culturally and politically oriented movement than as an artistic style, with works such as Onyar River in Girona, by Mela Mutermilch, or Moonlit Night in Girona, by Prudenci Bertrana.

Although the Museum’s display narrative reaches up to the 1930s, the art collection includes around 1,400 works from the second half of the 20th century to the present, most of them on deposit and originating from exhibitions and biennials organised by the Diputació de Girona.