[Leica] Nathan's PAD 17/6/2021: art in Madrid

[Don Dory]

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
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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.
>
> 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
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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