montjuic

if only for a blink of an eye, time to shift my obsessive adulation from one artist/medium to another: miro. headed over to the montjuic district, locale of many attractions but the main one in my mind being the miro foundation housing a handsome collection of his works. had a good long browse simply musing his paintings, tapestries and sculpture in various wings organized to visually depict his artistic evolution. fascinating.

montjuic is a smallish mountain which was selected to host the 1929 world´s fair. architectural remnants from this era include the national palace and its ornate fountains, the olympic stadium and numerous gardens everywhere. the olympic stadium was intended to host an anti-fascist alternative olympics in 1936 in protest against the 1936 berlin olympics but the spanish civil war forced a reprioritization that saw those plans forever shelved.