Today we planned to see the
Picasso Museum here since it is one of the top attractions for Barcelona and it
was open today when the museums we saw yesterday are not. I was looking at our map of the area we’re
in and figured that we could just walk to the museum in a few minutes as it’s
very close. We started out in that
direction but narrow winding streets got us totally turned around and we wound
up down at the seafront when we should have been paralleling it several blocks
in. Since it was sunny we made a snap
decision to walk along the beach for a while and enjoy being near the
Mediterranean since this is to be our only chance. So we walked over to where the Olympic
village and the water sports took place for the 92 games then went inland and
walked through a park to get us in the vicinity of the Picasso museum. I’m here to tell you, that it took us 2 or 3
tries to actually find it as it’s on one of the medieval lanes housed in 5
townhouses. We did get there as it was
starting to rain so thanks to our earlier purchase of special passes we were
able to bypass the line that headed down the street for a few hundred feet and
to right in. Of course it took us a
couple tries to find the interior ticket window but we made it and had a great
time seeing the all the Picasso paintings and prints. Particularly interesting were his studies and
interpretations of Velasquez’ Las Meninas, in the mid-50’s he painted over 50
works that basically deconstructed Velasquez most famous painting and let him
play with putting it together in different compositions. Of course he didn’t do literal copying of the
subjects but did them in his abstracted manner and they are very provocative
and appealing. In addition we saw over
40 of the ceramic vessels he created and painted that was there for a temporary
exhibition. I think that this museum should
be combined with the Picasso museum in Paris to get the full scope of his
work. Tomorrow we journey back to Madrid and pick up
our lives again in that town.
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