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Hi, my name is Alba and I'm going to talk about a very famous painting from Spain painted during the 20th century.

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So, if there was one work that caused a stir in Madrid's Salón de Otoño, the Autumn Salon, in 1929,

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it was unquestionably Un Mundo, A World, by a young and unknown painter called Ángeles Santos.

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The monumental painting, executed in Valladolid by an artist who lacked first-hand knowledge of what was being produced in Europe during that period,

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mesmerized the intelligentsia at the time.

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Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a very famous writer,

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good cried at the Salón de Otoño, submerged in the retiro, a wreckage of leaves and mud,

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a revelation has emerged, the revelation of a 17-year-old girl, Ángeles Santos,

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who appears as the painting Saint Teresa, listening to doves and stars, which dictate the feel her paintbrushes must have.

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Santos made a surprising original and modern work built around references taken from her immediate surroundings and from avant-garde magazines and publications.

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The most important of these was Franz Rauch's book, Magic Realism Post-Expressionism,

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which, translated into Spanish in 1927, gave her insight, through photos at least, into the works of artists such as Juan Miró

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and members of the so-called New Objectivity from Germany, with which Un Mundo has much in common.