The European creators who arrived in Spain between 1910 and 1920 – many of which fleeing the Great War-, brought new artistic trends with them that would circulate throughout Europe. Such was the case of the Delaunay couple; Albert Gleizes, who lived in Barcelona from 1916; Francis Picabia, also a resident of Barcelona for some time, where he founded the Dadaist magazine 391; and the painter Joaquín Torres García, equally linked with the city. With the outbreak of the First World War, María Blanchard returned to Spain from Paris, accompanied by the Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, with whom she shared a studio in Madrid, both participating in the exhibition Pintores íntegros, organised by Ramón Gómez de la Serna in 1915. Rafael Barradas and Norah Borges, as well as Polish refugees Wladyslaw Jahl and Marjan Paszkiewicz, contributed to the magazines of the growing Ultraist movement, a literary movement with the intention of opposing Modernism. Vicente Huidobro, a Chilean who had been living in Paris since 1916, also visited Madrid, where he published a number of his works and initiated an influential friendship with the then young poets Gerardo Diego and Juan Larrea.
Joaquín Torres García, Composición constructivista, 1930. Madera incisa. Galería Guillermo de Osma.