I totally agree Philippe, especially Miro.
...Wayne
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> Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 17/6/2021: art in Madrid
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> 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 :
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > I love looking at the faces of people from more than 500 years ago.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Much more to come.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> >
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