Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...galloping through the Spanish economy. Franco's henchmen handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital: "Don't ride the streetcars...
Holed up in a centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay...
...show comes the overall impression that the only thing taboo in Joán Miró's weird world of pixilated fantasy and around the kiln in Barcelona is a deficient sense of humor...
...Manhattan and of official ostracism in his own city. Outside Mexico Tamayo has in recent years won a hatful of international awards, including a $5,000 first prize at Sāo Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been up against an iron phalanx of pro-Marxist critics. Only four years ago die the government finally relent, award him his first official mural commission...
Anxious to Please. In Barcelona, Spain, the local papers carried a classified ad: "Intelligent servant seeks house with small family, no children, preferably with couple, if they are responsible, trustworthy and in good health. Prefer place outside Barcelona in mountains with pine forest, at altitude 600 to 800 meters. Don't know how to cook, preferable if housewife does cooking...