{"id":488,"date":"2009-01-16T05:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2009-01-16T05:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T05:27:30","slug":"madrid-jordi-molla-and-el-greco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/madrid-jordi-molla-and-el-greco\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid, Jordi Molla and El Greco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC02532.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC02532.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/>\nNo, not at the zoo, but the show window of a fish restaurant inviting you to a gourmet dinner !<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC02536.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC02536.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"194\" \/><br \/>\nA view of Madrid from my hotel room<br \/>\nI am in Madrid to talk about a movie (tell u about that one later) but also to see my friend Jordi Molla, who played King Phillip in Golden Age. We have been great friends since, and despite being a big star in Spain, Jordi is one of the humblest persons I have ever met. We keep promising to do a film together again and even a short film would be great. Something we could shoot in Barcelona maybe, in about 20 days.  Madrid is a vibrant cultural city. Cinema, art, Theatre and Opera.  And then there is the food. Oh my God, by the time you have finished lunch people are already discussing dinner. Have to get away before I become a balloon.<br \/>\nI have been to Madrid before but every time I come, I have to go to the Prado Museum. It has some of the best works of Rubens, Goya, Rembrandt, Rafael and others. But mainly I come to see the paintings of El Greco. Yu cannot stand in front of some of his paintings and not be moved by the emotional turmoil contained in them. The only other artist that has that effect on me is Van Gough.  The Prado has the largest collection of El Greco in the world. I find Greco fascinating and  even at a time where expressionism in religious art could put you squarely in prison, El Greco was painting dark fantasies (he apparently went through a very dark period himself) using religious iconism.  And some of his art where he broke free of the strictures of religious iconism, is amongst the most beautiful of expressionistic work I have seen even in the great modern artists.<br \/>\n&#8220;Art is not submission and rules, but a demon which smashes the moulds&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not at the zoo, but the show window of a fish restaurant inviting you to a gourmet dinner ! 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