Whose Art ?

This is from the Queen Sofia museum in Madrid, Spain.

The painting on the wall is probably worth a pile of cash, since it must have been bought with public money. It could also have been a donation, because it does take up a lot of room. It is made for people with very large houses or lots of garage space.

The view from the window would be pretty. Maybe, instead of buying all those paintings, the curators should have made a few more holes in the walls of the museum.

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The dog and the broom are not at the Queen Sofia, but with permission taken from http://davidlevine.wordpress.com/

And, thoughtfully added later, a toenail version of Norman Rockwell's "Connoisseur":

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The Queen Sofia has very beautiful things. They are only difficult to find because there is a lot of trash.

Perhaps the curators lacked some criterium of selection and classification. Each room got a name that means nothing, nothing, nothing at all:

>>> Resumption of the timeless absurd in space.

>>>> The absolute in its subconscious dimension curled in confusion.

>>>>> The evasive plurality of incongruence in a temporalizing environment

I shuffled the wordies to make these names up , because right now I cannot find the original notes.****

*****  Some time later 

 I did find some of the names seen at the museum about two years ago.

    The tensions of the venue.

    Structures, systems, and circuits.

    The lowest common multiple of experience.

   

Those were the real names of the rooms !!!

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See these car tyres?

The photo is from a report about the problems of a failing residential development in a small village south of Madrid:

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Well, some time ago the Reina Sofia exhibited  old car tyres piled up like that as a work of art. I have been told, but can't believe it, that they were flown in from the US.

Why don't I try and find out, and also the name of the artist?

Because trying would take too long. How many hours would you put in before giving up? And the glorious thing anyway would  be to find

>>> what justification  there was for this exhibition

>>>> how much it cost

>>>>> who signed the bill

And that is impossible. I would not even know how or where to start.



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The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid owns paintings by Dalí, Picasso, Miró, but they are hard to find.

There are two versions of Dalí’s Girl at the Window. It is his sister. At the time he had not yet met Gala who became his model later on.

There is also Picasso’s Guernica and many of the preparative sketches that Picasso made for the most famous of his paintings.

It is in fact the only one of his paintings that became as famous as several of his drawings.

And of course they have some of Dalí’s “surrealist” paintings, striking, but complicated to remember.

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There is a great shop:

The mobile hanging from the ceiling is by the American artist Calder.
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