From Red Maple and Eucalyptus to Fog swept streets of a former gold rush capitol.
Listen.
On to sounds of morning birds at coffee talk. Motors replace the white noise of the tide. A sea of pavement in the former orange grove.
Heat. Bicycle thiefs.
Walls of Ficus replace neighborly greetings.
Dalí’s Portrait of Buñuel
In the early 1920s, Madrid was a city caught between tradition and modernity. Spain had just emerged from the turbulence of World War I and was inching toward the cultural and political upheavals that would define the 1930s. For a group of young artists living at...
Guernica and the Shadows of War
A Painting Born of Tragedy When you stand in front of Picasso’s monumental canvas Guernica at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía, you’re not just looking at art—you’re looking at a cry of anguish from the 20th century. Painted in 1937, Guernica was Picasso’s response to the...
Circa ~1990
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