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...human form and emotion, most notably in a series of depictions of Our Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron saint. The original Montserrat is a small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest...
Twenty Years' Death. Gonzalez, born in Barcelona in 1876, spent his youth working alongside his brother, Joan, as an apprentice goldsmith in his father's atelier. He moved to Paris with his family at the turn of the century. The death of Joan in 1908 caused him to turn in upon himself, break off his friendships with his artist friends (including the young Picasso), and enter 20 years' solitude, torpor and artistic death...
...Romanesque art ever held. Sponsored by the Council of Europe, an organization dedicated to the cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
...owned up to 1,068 political prisoners in a total prison population of 15,000. Franco, perennially bidding to be recognized as the West's favorite dictator, may simply have rejuggled some of his political prisoners into criminal classifications. Hardly had Herreros sat down than word came from Barcelona of two trials for "military rebellion," Franco's euphemism for anti-Franco activity. An Israeli, a Frenchman and 13 Spaniards were given sentences of one to twelve years in jail...
Polish painters, as Selz found, have been relatively free to travel since Gomulka came to power in 1956. "They are swiftly aware of art events, whether in New York or Barcelona." Selz points out. In a country where to be educated often means to speak French, the main tie is still with Paris, and even the Poles have not always escaped being more stylish than profound. But if the splashy oils, crumpled collages and floating, ambiguous forms often suggest bolder and earlier experiments by better-known painters in the West, the passion and verve behind the paintings is pure Polish...