Word: goya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...descendant of the de Albas, I disagree with the so-called experts who would like to convince themselves that there was an adulterous relationship between the painter Goya and Dona Cayetana de Silva, one of the Duchesses of Alba [July...
...Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...
...witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
Last week museum officials announced that cleaning had uncovered another hint that peasant painter and noble model were indeed lovers. There was a second word, preceding Goya, that had been covered over with paint long ago-presumably by the artist himself. That word is "Solo," Spanish for only...