Spain Journal- Feb 26th- Madrid

Good Day World,

Day 3- Madrid

I give my report on Picasso. My book was "Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man", by Norman Mailer. It was interesting. Did you know that Picasso was linked to the stealing of the Mona Lisa from the louvre. He had bought a  stolen item from a friend, who got it from the person that stole it. Picasso knew it was a stolen item as well, that is what made it so bad. He turned it in, but still could of went to jail for it. I believe there is a picture of me giving my report with the "Finger-puppet" of Picasso as he look when he got older. I'll have to find out who has it so everyone can see. After my report and we all had breakfast, we went to the Reina Sofia Museum.

The outside of the Reina Sofia

Reina Sofia

We saw some of Picasso's work and Dali as well. My favorite paintings of Picasso's is the Blue Lady, doing his blue period. There is just something about it, that speaks to me. It's so sad but yet classic. It's interesting to me to think, that I got to see Picasso's work. I stood in front of it and looked at it, just as he had when he was working on it.

Picasso's Blue Lady

Another painter I found interesting is Dali. His work can seem very out there. That maybe why so many people like him or hate him. That is one thing I love about art. People can interpret it as they see fit. Everyone sees something different, it's never the same thing for different people.

Dali

There is so much to write about that I saw at the Reina Sofia Museum, however there is more to cover. After we left the museum, we were allowed to go get lunch and then meet back at the hostel to go to the next museum. While we were out exploring, Julia, Dominique, Ryan and I came across a protest in the Streets of Madrid. It was about Freeing Syria. There was alot of people there and when I decide to take part in study abroad, I never thought that I would see a parade/protest for a political act. It was a peaceful event, but there was a lot of police presence there.

We all met up at 4pm to go to the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum. As we walked there we saw live performers, that were awesome. If you didn't see his eyes move, you would never know which person was real and which was not. When we finally got to the Museum, we had a little class outside to give a little history of what we were going to see. Benita and Gordon also bought special tickets for us to see the Chagall exhibit. That was a nice treat. He is a very interesting artist.There was a few of us that noticed that Chagall liked to paint roosters in his painting, which I found very interesting.



Live statue

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Having class out side of Thyssen Museum

Night Sky