Sunday, 23 April 2017

Madrid 3 ... tres

Thur 20 Apr

Plans change ... the plan was: walk to Museo Regina Sofia to see the special Picasso exhibition, however, the line was very long and slow moving. An attendant handed out notices suggesting online tickets sales, which became our plan for tomorrow. So, plan B:

An exhibition of work by Maurits Escher. For those who know of his work, you would be very excited by the scope of work on display. For those who don't know his work, google it and you'll probably recognise some of it. I think the most interesting thing about it is that the bulk of his prints were done as woodcuts, a painstaking, manual process but impressive results in production. His later work included lithographs as well, but all his original designs were drawn by hand. The display here included many interactive features as well.



Later walked the length of one of the main shopping streets. Madrid locals really enjoy the daily stroll. They were out in their hundreds, no, thousands.


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