Word: goya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier's power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated, have lived since. Because he was a great humanitarian as well as a great draughtsman, his work, like that of Goya, has had its significance renewed in a post-War era as turbulent as his own. The largest as well as the most interesting exhibition of Daumier yet held in the U. S. will open this week in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Museum...
...Goya's famed bullfight scenes, Mariano Ceballos and La Division de Place...
...with Ernest Hemingway before The Sun Also Rises, lived and roistered in Madrid, Paris, Tunis. Like most artists who came out of the War with minds touched by mortality and repelled by stuffiness, he stayed in Europe until Depression called him home. His painting first went strongly Zuloaga, then Goya, then strongly Matisse, remains humorous and unruly. In the past few years his favorite subjects have been his twins, Michael and Chamberlain, and their more recent sister, Gabby. He once whiled away a short vacation in Key West by painting a pious mural for a convent where the twins...
...picture appears to belong to the period of Goya's best portraits, as they are classified by Beruete from 1801 to 1808. The age of the sitter, the costume and the manner of wearing the hair, the similarity in style to others of that time, all point toward those years. In its summary technique and its candor of statement, its closest parallel is a fine sketch done in 1805 of Mocarte...
...great vigor of all the color is a reminder of the vermilion uniforms which Goya so well recorded in his court portraits or the beautiful black, white and blue of the portrait in the Museum of Eme Arts...