Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Warning. Enter with caution 🤗

This has to be the largest art gallery I have ever visited. I have spent over 4 hours and honestly I think another three to four hours might do the trick.

I do not intend uploading every picture I viewed and read about. But there will still be a lot offered below. Given me a day or two to edit.

Alex Katz exhibition 

At the museum I visited as much of the permanent exhibition as I was physically able to, but before hand I went through a curated exhibition of the American artist named Alex Katz who is now 96.

This surname always catches my eye because one of my maternal great grandmother's  who lived in the Pale of Settlement had the married name of Katz.

Most of the pieces curated for this exhibition showed the world he created around his 2nd wife,  Ada. The works, in my opinion, show much depth, love and understanding between a husband and wife.

The Permanent Exhibition

I am starting the Permanent Exhibition with two items I believe embody the spirit of humanity. 

They are both by Frederick Remington 

who was artistically active in

the mid late 19th century in the USA.

The pose of the rider going down the steep hill was reproduced in the 1982 Australian film "The Man from Snowy River". 

Watch it. One of my favourite films.

Albert Bierstadt 

Evening on the prairie 1870

Willem de Kooning

Abstraction. 1949 - 1950

Fredrick Edwin Church 

Abandoned Skiff 1850