{"id":7614,"date":"2025-10-16T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canal.mesmnac.cat\/?post_type=museu&p=7614"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:37:32","slug":"their-names-escape-us","status":"publish","type":"museu","link":"https:\/\/canal.mesmnac.cat\/en\/museum\/their-names-escape-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Their Names Escape Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \"MNAC\"\n\n \"MNAC\"\n\n\n
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Drawing nature inside and outside the Museum seeks to foster a new way of rethinking our relationship with the natural world, engaging children, young people and families in a creative and transformative exercise that encourages them to reconsider their bond with \u2013 and love for \u2013 their surroundings. Drawing becomes a space of resistance, learning and care, where imagination acts as a force for change.<\/p>\n\n <\/h2>\n <\/article>\n

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Archive of nature drawn inside and outside the Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outdoor drawing serves as a tool for reconnecting with nature. Sketching in the middle of a forest, or between the cracks of a pavement, allows us to contemplate nature by slowing down and paying attention. Any spot \u2013 an urban garden, a piece of rough ground, a solitary tree \u2013 can be a source of observation and connection. Drawing thus becomes a practice for calming the mind, activating creativity and discovering what remains hidden from our hurried urban gaze.<\/p>\n

The Museum can act as an extension of this proposal: a space where nature has entered, where it is expressed and makes itself present through paintings, sculptures and photographs \u2013 by different artists and from different historical moments \u2013 in which the focus is also on small things: wild plants, silent trees shading the bravest warriors, or sensual flowers that stir lovers. Drawing, inside the Museum, the plant species depicted by artists is a way of drawing a collective memory of species, opening a dialogue between culture and the environment.<\/p>\n

Inside or outside the Museum, drawing nature reminds us that the plant world is not merely a scenic backdrop but an essential basis of life; and that creativity is a powerful tool for looking afresh, naming and respecting the forms of life with which we share the planet.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n \n

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