While short, our visit to the Hispanic Society was an enlightening and welcome change to the status quo. It was an interesting perspective to attempt to think of Spain further decommercialized and, in a smaller, much more local sense, as Buñuel depicted in Las Hurdes. The artworks were somnambulistic and so pleasing to look at. Particularly, the painting of the fishmongers after catching their gigantic tuna. There is a tangible air of tranquility in the painting and its atmosphere. I also liked that there were a multitude of Moorish depictions in the main hall. As I had learned before, during the Spanish Reconquista, they attempted to eradicate all traces of the Moors as they believed they were heretical and less than Spanish Christians. The private room we were allowed to view, as well, provided a great insight into personalizing and characterizing the people of Las Hurdes. The photography was raw, but showed that life was not just constant misery as it was hyperbolically depicted in Buñuel’s film. In the larger exhibition room, the painting of the flagellants or penitents, as the caption calls them, was also fascinating. It is immediately striking to any American because we connote the capirote not with Christianity but with the Ku Klux Klan.