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...farm implements he collected around Bolton Landing-and finishing with the Cubis, a series incomplete at his death. In those 14 years, one may say without exaggeration, Smith explored the possibilities of welded metal sculpture more fully than any artist before or since-more, even, than Picasso or Julio González, from whom he first got the idea of using iron...
...youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith's childhood associations flow into a career as a sculptor was seeing photos, not the originals, of the metal sculpture of Picasso and his fellow Spaniard, González, in an art magazine published in the early '30s. Smith had been a painting student in New York City. Working iron, he saw, might have the directness of painting. It was an intrinsically modern material, which had, as he said, "little art history. What associations it possesses...
...terrorism on the one hand and threatened on the other by disgruntled right-wingers anxious to return to the dictatorial days of Francisco Franco. Only three days before the Pope's white Alitalia 727 touched down at Madrid's Barajas Airport, Spanish voters had given Socialist Felipe González Márquez, 40, a landslide victory in national elections. Arriving during a tense period of political transition, the Pope told King Juan Carlos, González and the nation's military leaders, "I would like to greet and pay my respects to the legitimate representatives...
Informed of the killing, John Paul II telephoned his condolences to King Juan Carlos. He later told an audience in Toledo that "violence is not the way to the solution of problems and is always anti-Christian." González attended a religious service at the military headquarters where General Lago's body was lying in state. He warned that the Socialist government, which will be formed on Dec. 9, will not be provoked. Said he: "We shall use all means at our disposal in the constitution to eradicate terrorism...
Shortly after his warm handshake with González at the royal palace (González, a nonpracticing Catholic, bowed but did not kiss the Pope's ring), John Paul II spoke at a Mass in Madrid's Plaza de Lima before more than a million cheering spectators, one of the largest crowds he has drawn in any of his 16 trips abroad. Standing beneath a 30-ft.-high cross on a podium draped in white and yellow papal bunting, the Pontiff put forward in exceptionally strong terms his conservative position on marriage and the family. The Socialists...