[Leica] IMG: a day in Madrid

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thanks as always for the wonderful visit

ric


> On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:35 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
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> On Friday I spent the day in Madrid, out on the 7:14 train, home on the 
> 21:15 train, giving me just about 12 hours to walk around Madrid. The main 
> purpose was to visit an exhibition of 17th century Dutch and Spanish 
> paintings at the Prado, consisting of 72 works from Prado?s own 
> collection, supplemented with loans from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and 
> other Dutch museums. The idea was to highlight the remarkable similarity 
> between Dutch and Spanish painters, even in cases where they had never met 
> nor seen each other?s paintings, such a Vermeer and Vel?zquez. Art 
> historians have traditionally emphasized the uniqueness of Dutch painting 
> following the establishment of the Netherlands as an independent state in 
> 1648. This exhibition puts paid to that idea.
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> In addition, the PhotoEspa?a photography festival is currently going on, 
> with interesting photo exhibitions all over Madrid. I had chosen four 
> exhibitions to visit, but two of them were at the Casa de Am?rica which 
> turned out to be closed for vacation, so I had to make do with two. But 
> one of them was a real gem, a very complete exhibition of works by 
> Berenice Abbott. I was not really familiar with her work until now?she was 
> truly a remarkable woman and photographer.
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> And of course I walked around the city a lot, taking lunch at the Mercado 
> de San Miguel near Plaza Mayor, and spending an hour in the Parque del 
> Buen Retiro, probably the nicest park in any big city. Think of it as 
> Central Park but with a couple of art galleries, numerous bars and lots of 
> beautiful fountains.
> 
> August is actually a great month to visit Madrid; it can be hot, sure, but 
> on the other hand half of Madrid?s population is at the seaside (many in 
> Alicante where I live), traffic is light, so the air is clean, and the 
> metro is uncrowded.
> 
> Fifty-five images are here:
> 
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/madrid_aug2019/index.html
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> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
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