Charles Henry and Maximilien Rapine, Cercle chromatique, 1889

Between concept and consumption, color colonized Madrid’s spring offer of art. Controversially at odds with concept and condemned for its connection to consumerism, color was celebrated through three shows: the Fundación March hosted an ambitious exhibition on the autonomy of color in 20th-century abstraction, the Royal Collections Gallery displayed the sampling of ornamental rocks used by the Bourbon monarchs in the 18th century to build an architecture in color, and the Prado Museum closed this sequence with an exhibition on Veronese, a great representative of 16th-century Venetian painting and its defense of colore againt Florentine disegno...[+]