MADRID.- The Ministry of Culture and the Sorolla Museum Foundation have organized the exhibition "Dialogues: Sorolla & Velázquez", which can be seen until January 24, 2010 at the Sorolla Museum in Madrid. Dialogues is an exhibition project that was born with the intent of reviewing the relationship between Sorolla with his great influence, Diego Velázquez. The Dialogue between the two painters develops following three thematic views; Realism, Portraits, and Landscapes. Realism- Sorolla ties himself to the rich Spanish naturalist tradition when he represents daily life generating a work that is characterized by its nationalism very similar to Velázquez’. Landscape- Plein air painting was a necessity and a vital philosophy for Sorolla. It is an essential genre from which the renovation of painting started off in the last decades of the 19th-century