This book brings together more than 80 watercolors made in the streets and gardens of Madrid by the Madrid artist Fernando Blasco over more than five years. These beautiful illustrations are accompanied by the brilliant texts of Pepo Paz, who takes, through a series of itineraries that begin at Puerta del Sol, "ground zero" of any visit to Madrid, a journey through the history and urban planning of this city in which he resides, and under whose scrutinizing gaze the future of its people, streets and squares, buildings, fountains, palaces and convents unfolds.
Fernando Blasco's watercolors are a journey into the memory of Madrid. They discover a city of unexpected perspectives full of exuberant architecture, hidden squares, evocative facades and monumental fountains. His watercolors sketch a city in permanent transformation. Search for Madrid in Madrid. And do it from the oldest vestiges to the city of the 21st century. A unique and daring task. A travel notebook full of watercolors and anecdotes. The book is structured into several chapters: The Madrid of the Austrias, Barrio de las Letras and Lavapiés, Illustrated Madrid, From Cibeles to Moncloa, El Manzanares and the Casa de Campo, Modern Madrid, Other neighborhoods... etc.
This book brings together more than 80 watercolors made in the streets and gardens of Madrid by the Madrid artist Fernando Blasco over more than five years. These beautiful illustrations are accompanied by the brilliant texts of Pepo Paz, who takes, through a series of itineraries that begin at Puerta del Sol, "ground zero" of any visit to Madrid, a journey through the history and urban planning of this city in which he resides, and under whose scrutinizing gaze the future of its people, streets and squares, buildings, fountains, palaces and convents unfolds.
Fernando Blasco's watercolors are a journey into the memory of Madrid. They discover a city of unexpected perspectives full of exuberant architecture, hidden squares, evocative facades and monumental fountains. His watercolors sketch a city in permanent transformation. Search for Madrid in Madrid. And do it from the oldest vestiges to the city of the 21st century. A unique and daring task. A travel notebook full of watercolors and anecdotes. The book is structured into several chapters: The Madrid of the Austrias, Barrio de las Letras and Lavapiés, Illustrated Madrid, From Cibeles to Moncloa, El Manzanares and the Casa de Campo, Modern Madrid, Other neighborhoods... etc.