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...Knoedler Galleries for shipment to the Brussels World's Fair. There it will hang alone in a special Spanish-pavilion annex. The Franco regime will celebrate the fair's inauguration by issuing a commemorative postage stamp bearing a reproduction of the Dali work. Later, said Catalan-born Artist Dali, the painting will go to Spain's "majestic temple of pure, classic lines, worthy of my work, the Escorial, and there, in its full dignity, it shall guard Philip...
Because the Catalan churches lay in a backward area, they remained almost unchanged through the centuries, were not rebuilt in later styles. In recent decades most of the frescoes and painted wood altar fronts have been moved into museums at Vich and Barcelona to stop further deterioration and to permit careful studies by art scholars. The best that is left of this all but forgotten chapter from the past has now been reproduced in oversized format (18 in. by 13 in.) in Spain, Romanesque Paintings, published by the New York Graphic Society ($16.50) as part of the UNESCO World...
Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
People & President. The 6,400,000 people of Chile-a mixture of Basque and Catalan stock, with some blend of the original Araucanian Indians-have demonstrable courage and energy. Though outnumbered in an 1879-83 war with Peru and Bolivia, they easily grabbed the copper and nitrate riches of the rainless northern deserts, thus completed the process of making their country so long (2,600 mi.) that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President...