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MODERN artists find it easier to express passion than to praise God, and, except for Georges Rouault, they have generally chosen the easier course. But now a lame, grey, and perhaps great artist in Madrid has taken Rouault's high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish...
Arriving by Retiring. The son of a tobacco planter, Cossio was raised in a hamlet near Spain's north coast. A childhood accident left him with a permanent limp. At 16 he went to Madrid to study art; at 25 he was in Paris hobnobbing with Braque. Cubism fascinated him; from it he developed a prismatic quality of composition. But the turmoil of Montmartre was no lasting fun for so indrawn a man, and after nine years he retired to his home town. There he painted in solitude, almost unknown...
...first Madrid show in 1945 made Cossio famous overnight. His second, in 1950, secured his place as Spain's foremost living artist. The mural commission followed. Cossio took a studio atop a downtown Madrid skyscraper and established a daily routine: mornings working alone on the mural at the church, afternoons painting and resting alone in his studio, evenings chatting with friends at the Café Gijon, an artists' hangout...
...management of Buenos Aires' powerful "Radio Belgrano." For two long years the station had put up with Perón's mistress, Eva Duarte, a third-rate actress who had demanded top-flight treatment. Soon after the good news came over the wire, Manager Juan Cossio got Eva on the telephone: "You needn't come to work tonight...
...Cossio: "Neither you nor your company are wanted in Radio Belgrano tonight or any other night. Goodbye...