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...they insisted upon is suddenly an asset to Franco. This uneasy partnership makes for strange ironies. When the government four months ago sent a striking show of new painting to the Spanish pavilion at the World's Fair, Tàpies and one of his top followers, Modest Cuixart, would not let their work be included - even though Picasso, out of a growing nostalgia for Spain, sent three new paintings...
...Modest Cuixart, 39, cousin of Antoni Tàpies, paints in a richly detailed impasto that he calls "the new baroque." Once a member of Dau al Set, he left to dabble in textile designs, returned to share the crown of Catalan craftsmanship with Tàpies. Cuixart says that "a renewal is taking place among those young artists who are distinguished by their absolute independence...
...MODEST CUIXART-Bonino, 7 West 57th. Spanish Painter Cuixart mixes his own concoction of materials, juxtaposes baroque designs with flesh-colored cubist construction. Sensuous red and black lines speak of darkness and calamity. Through...
...open annoyance of many jurists, first prize in painting went to Spain's Modesto Cuixart, 33, cousin but proclaimed rival of Spain's Antonio Tapies (TIME, March 16). Cuixart makes elegant mudpies, the blackest and heaviest in the notably gloomy Spanish exposition. Black may always be in fashion, especially in Spain. Yet the spirit of Goya is clearly not with Cuixart. He makes despair chic...
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