Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head Start. From his great house on a mountain promontory northeast of Barcelona, Tàpies remains the leader of the Spanish moderns-by virtue of a head start. In 1949, in Barcelona, he put on a show of abstractions which, though dismissed by the Spanish press and ignored by the public, caught the eye of other struggling painters...
...Guinovart, 37, is a Barcelona favorite who started with social realism, then did stage décor for García Lorca plays. The stocky artist turned to collages, attaching everyday apparel to his somber canvases. His Homage to Valdés Leal attempts to express the tremendous force of a 17th century artist in a volcanic surface that belches up actual objects...
...turn of the century, storming the European art scene, Dr. Atl talked anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward...
While both love affairs develop innocuously, the gaps in the story line are filled by some delightful European circus acts and other diversions. A 4,000-ton ship keels over at the pier in Barcelona, and one exciting scene has Hayworth, Cardinale and Wayne all dangling from the rigging of a burning tent. The only serious mishap to befall Circus World is Cinerama, which magnifies a meager tale beyond all reasonable proportions. To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there...
...days." Ever alert to such cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes many another movie musical look as pale as 60-watt moonshine...