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

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I caught an O'Keefe exhibition in Toronto a few years ago, which was
enhanced by a half a room full of Stieglitz and Ansel prints by way of
additional inputs into her art. Some were big and wonderful, including a
stunningly printed Moonrise, and some were small and IMHO borderline
pornography, nothing artistic at all, which showed that major artists have
their very public kinks.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/AGO/Canada-20170722-607.jpg.html

The real star of the show for me, however, was the Frank Gehry designed Art
Gallery of Ontario, which is breathtaking in its play of space, form, light
and shade:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/canada/AGO/

Cheers
Jayanand



On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 11:05 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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 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
> >
> > Alicante, Spain
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