A Spaniard in New York
He exhibited alongside Rothko and Motherwell — one of few Spaniards in the movement.
An art centre in central Granada devoted to José Guerrero, the Granadan painter who became part of the abstract expressionist movement in New York. His story is unusual: born in Granada in 1914, he studied in Madrid and Paris, then moved to New York in the 1950s when the city was the centre of the art world. He exhibited alongside Rothko and Motherwell and became one of very few Spaniards in that movement. His work is large flat colour and hard masses, and much of it returns visually to al-Andalus: reds and blacks, and forms recalling arches and lattice screens, painted while he was far from his own city. The building is small — four floors in a historic house — and the permanent collection is shown in rotation with temporary exhibitions. Its position is excellent: on Calle Oficios between the cathedral and the Royal Chapel, in the middle of Granada's visitor route, with a view of the cathedral from its upper windows. It has a weekly closing day and entry may be free at set times — ask on arrival.
He exhibited alongside Rothko and Motherwell — one of few Spaniards in the movement.
Reds, blacks and forms recalling arches and screens, painted far from his city.
From the upper windows — an angle most visitors never get.
Calle Oficios, near the cathedral
AlcaiceríaNarrow covered lanes beside the cathedral, what remains of the silk market of Is1 min walk
Palacio de la MadrazaWhat survives of the Nasrid madrasa founded by Sultan Yusuf I in the fourteenth 1 min walk
Royal Chapel of GranadaThe Royal Chapel of Granada is a Gothic building in the city centre holding the 1 min walk
Corral del CarbónThe Corral del Carbón in Granada is the only surviving building of its kind in S1 min walk
Centro Federico García LorcaA modern cultural institution in central Granada, created to hold the archive of3 min walkGranada is visited for the Alhambra and the Albaicín, and those have the first claim on your first day without argument. But this centre is small, cheap and on the route, and it gives you an entirely different face of the city: a Granadan in New York painting al-Andalus in a twentieth-century language. One hour costs your plan nothing.
The Alhambra Museum inside the palace shows Andalusi art, and the Fine Arts Museum in the same palace shows Spanish religious painting. This is the only centre in Granada devoted to modern and contemporary art, which makes it an addition rather than a repetition.
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