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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 9/10/2014: powerful art in Toledo

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 9/10/2014: powerful art in Toledo
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:57:40 +0100
Thanks for showing us that, Nathan.  It’s a bit difficult to discern the 
content – I thought initially that the large object was a broken cross – and it 
took me a few minutes to discover that you had translated “Shoah”, but 
misspelled “disgrace”.  I found a Spanish description which translates “Shoah” 
as “gran disgracia”.

His art is not the sort that I would seek out, going by some of the examples 
that I found on the Internet, but that Guernica is certainly a powerful piece 
and this one seems to evoke similar outrage.

Chris

On 10 Oct 2014, at 07:05, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are visiting the city of Toledo near Madrid, once among the most important 
> Jewish cities in the world. The expulsion of Jews in 1492 ended that, but the 
> city still has a well-preserved Jewish quarter with several interesting 
> museums in what used to be medieval temples. One of them, the Sinagoga de 
> Transito, contains an extremely powerful work of art, at least I found it 
> very powerful:
> 
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3601286970&k=bXPQjKr&lb=1&s=O
> 
> Painted by a German artist (who adopted Spain as his country) with whose work 
> I was not familiar until yesterday.

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