Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If for some reason you make it to New Mexico there is a fabulous Georgia O'KEEFE museum plus an opportunity to see the landscape that inspired her. On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 7:43 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > 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 Fundaci?n Mapfre on Paseo Recoletos. Mapfre is a big > insurance company, and like other similar companies (banks, the phone > company Telef?nica 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 Mir?, 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 Fundaci?n 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 fa?ade 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 > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information