The Reina Sophia, Madrid’s contemporary art museum has a world class collection so it is a must stop. We wandered through the place in a methodical fashion so as to see it all in one day. We gorged ourselves on Richard Serra, Edvard Munch and Paul Klee as well as younger artists we had never heard of. My jaw dropped when I saw two big Philip Guston paintings and five or six drawings as part of a provocative show called, “Elements: The Space of Crisis.”
A display of graphics, photos and art from the Spanish Cival War wound us up for the killer piece in this museum’s collection, Picasso’s Guernica, a monumental painting he did for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris in response to the fascist bombing of the Basque town. A total knockout!
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