Word: antoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There has been considerable progress in freeing the arts. Since 1958, when Antoni Tàpies brought glory to Spain by winning the Venice Biennale, the regime has been furiously promoting young Spanish painters and writers...
...shiny black Ferrari with bulletproof windshield, a radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul a crook in a Jaguar fleeing Rome with $160,000 worth of paintings. Last month it ran Luciano D'Antoni, "king of the jailbreak," into a ditch and back to jail. Ace Police Driver Armando Spatafora has a chestful of medals for his daring sprints in the name of law, order and Ferrari...
Then came a wry event. Abstract paintings by a fiery Catalonian named Antoni Tàpies won a prize for Spain at the Venice Biennale, followed by first prize at the Carnegie International. It dawned on Madrid that themeless abstractions have no power to topple a government but could serve to speak to the world of a more modern, talented and open Spain...
Modest Cuixart, 39, cousin of Antoni Tàpies, paints in a richly detailed impasto that he calls "the new baroque." Once a member of Dau al Set, he left to dabble in textile designs, returned to share the crown of Catalan craftsmanship with Tàpies. Cuixart says that "a renewal is taking place among those young artists who are distinguished by their absolute independence...
...picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel, and Werner Haftmann, German art historian. The jury also gave prizes of $2,500 each to Wifredo Lam, a Cuban who works in Italy; Robert Motherwell of the U.S.; Spain's Antoni Tapies and Victor de Vasarely, a Hungarian who lives in France...