Picasso and Such

So, this last week was pretty cool. Wednesday we were going to go to a movie but at the last minute Erin mentioned that they were going to the Reina Sofia Museum which was the modern art museum of Madrid. So I kinda blew off Andrew but he was ok with it. When we got to Madrid someone wanted to show off the Bus Station so we walked around for a bit and found a slice of Joao Pessoa in the middle of Madrid. From there someone mentioned a cool odd church that closes at 6 so we decided to to that first. It was a lot of fun. Erin and I are probably going to Hell for taking this picture. But anyways, it was starting to become appearent that most Spanish Cathedrals are basically the same. I scared everyone really bad because there was a ledge outside the front of the church that from the steps looked like the egde of a wall but was really just a step down. I stepped up to take a picture and then acted like I slipped and fell backwards. People freaked out and it was really funny. From there was headed over to the museum and on the way I bought Kindra a horse that she will love. It walks around in circles. The guy wanted 10 for it but I walked away and he offered 8. I told him I'd do it for 7 and he agreed but then told me it had to be 8 with a battery. I told him heck no and he got angry but still gave it to me for 7. The Museum was really interesting. The first couple of rooms were just so modern I felt like I needed to sit and meditate. I did and the security came and got mad at me...all part of the experience I guess. A lot of the art was kinda "interesting" Dali and Picasso were perverts. We were looking at some of the odder works and one especially caught our eye. But the more we looked at it the more we noticed little things that got weirder and weirder. Finally Brock pointed out the name of the piece was "El Gran Masturbador" by Salvador Dali. I hadn't realized whose all these works were and suddenly I realized the this was a pretty serious museum. At first I thought it was just some random one. I wasn't really expecting anything that famous there. As I gave another circle around the room to give Dali the attention someone that famous deserved I realized that there was a lot more here than I had originally thought. I don't mean the museum but Spain. I guess the label of it as almost a 3rd world country had given me a false impression that I wasn't going to see anything nice and advanced, just historical. A new wave of realization and excitement came over me.

One room was playing this really weird French movie and we were all really confused by it. Another room had odd modern sculptures. There was a room devoted to a photographer of the Spanish Civil War. From there we walked into what we found to be the Picasso room. I was still just expecting a few not to famous ones and there on the far wall was the famous Guernica. It was huge and awesome with a lot of detail and symbolism. I was floored and impressed and awestruck and any other synonym of those things. I really liked it. Its really cool when you read about something and then finally see it.

On the way out we saw this teeny little dog. In the train/bus/metro station in the rain forest room there were a lot of cool looking turtles. When we arrived in Alcala I walked Brooke home and we went through the mall and I found the midgit door. Thus ended the awesome artzy night.