Bosch and Miro rank high in my personal hall of fame, thank you.
About Miro, I was stunned in his museum/foundation at Barcelona, a triptych
there got me on hold for very long minutes, really worth a visit.
Both painters always start my imagination galloping no end, which I like so
much.
Thanks again.
Amities
Philippe
> Le 19 juin 2021 à 09:52, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> Once in a while I take a day trip to Madrid to visit art museums and
> galleries, and just to enjoy the big city. The high-speed train covers the
> 440 km from Alicante to Madrid in 2 hours 20 minutes, making it perfectly
> doable. And now that I have turned 60, I get a completely unjustified
> discount on the train ticket—I mean, my salary has not gone down, and I still
> occupy the same amount of space on the train, but I’ll take the discount.
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> I arrived at Madrid’s Atocha station around 11 a.m. and had made an itinerary
> of 3 museums to visit, adding a fourth once there. My first stop was the
> Prado, where I go mainly to see my perennial favourites, like the Garden of
> Earthly Delights and other works by Hieronymus Bosch. A lot of other people
> do the same:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3fJPSqK/A
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> In the same room is a round wooden table painted by Bosch, depicting the
> seven deadly sins, here gluttony:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-XjDQm46/A
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> I love looking at the faces of people from more than 500 years ago.
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> As I was walking to the Prado from Atocha, I saw posters advertising a
> Georgia O’Keeffee exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza gallery, a bit further
> up the road from the Prado. It was not on my planned itinerary, but since it
> was raining and I wanted to see O’Keeffee’s paintings, I went there. And I
> was not disappointed. The art was great, and I got a nice image of this
> museum guard spending her time reading a book about art:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-4x5Hgwq/A
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> After visiting Georgia O´Keeffee, the next stop was lunch, and after that a
> visit to the Fundación Mapfre on Paseo Recoletos. Mapfre is a big insurance
> company, and like other similar companies (banks, the phone company
> Telefónica etc.) it has a large art museum in the centre of Madrid. I went
> there to see and exhibiton of photographs by Bill Brandt, but they also had a
> nice Espace Miró, where by chance another visitor spent some time looking at
> this painting at length, thus providing me with a photo opportunity:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xtpMZHX/A
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> While I was at the Fundación Mapfre, the rain stopped and the rest of my day
> in Madrid I enjoyed good weather, conducive to walking around a bit. A couple
> of new monuments have been added in the past couple of years in the area near
> Madrid’s city hall on Plaza Cibeles. In 2019, this monument to the refugees
> was put up on Paseo Recoletos, to replace the large “Refugees welcome” banner
> that had been draped across the façade of the city hall:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-nV52Njd/A
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> And the newest addition, right on Cibeles, to honour the victims of the Covid
> pandemic, around 100,000 here in Spain (the official death toll is around
> 80,000 but if you go by excess mortality, the number climbs into six digits):
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CJmCtgw/A
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> Much more to come.
>
> Nathan
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