Whether for housing museums like the Prado or the Reina Sofia or for having more than a hundred art galleries, Madrid is an ideal city for painters or painting dilettantes. Walking around the Centro district, it is not difficult to find artists replicating the sunsets of the Gran Vía on canvas, or drawing express portraits of passers-by who want to immortalize their passage.
One of the places characterized by its artistic traditions is the Plaza Conde de Barajas. Once a week, the space becomes an open-air exhibition. In total, more than forty artists from the Association of Madrilenian Painters Taller Abierto show up every Sunday (from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) in this corner of the capital to turn it into a bohemian paradise full of unique works: the Painters’ Market.
The square, located between the streets of Madrid de los Austrias, very close to kilometer 0, hosts stalls such as Esteban Zamorano‘s, who experiments with color and ink in his surrealist drawings, or Miguel López Mora‘s, with cheerful oil paintings that would fill any living room with life. Of course, all the works at the flea market can be purchased. The price varies according to the work and is determined by the painters themselves.
Those who didn’t know about this whereabouts already have a place to go if they want to give more style to their walls and shelves. An ephemeral museum that helps local commerce by giving value to the work of national painters.