Word: bullfighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hits of the show are twelve geometrically patterned pictures of bullfights, which Dominguez painted in three weeks. Done with a few simple lines and clear colors, they recall bullfight scenes painted by Dominguez' good friend, Picasso. One well-disposed critic got around their obvious derivation by reporting that Dominguez "has fully developed a theme which Picasso merely sketched in earlier years." Another wrote, a little more accurately, that Dominguez' new paintings are "works of extreme precision and perfect elegance...
...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
Disarmed Bandit. At 78, Goya got permission to travel to France for his health. He left behind half a century of masterpieces that embraced not only portraits and war etchings but also gay nudes, spooky fantasies, still lifes, street scenes and dozens of bullfight pictures. With six action pictures illustrating the Spanish ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf...
...mountain village of San Martin Texmelucán, near Mexico City, three were killed and 100 injured when sunny-side bleachers collapsed under the stomping of excited bullfight fans...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...