Word: goya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some $3,000,000 worth of masterworks by El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso-drew a record turnout of 53,031 visitors, more than the museum in its old headquarters could normally expect in a whole year...
...happens every year. Kathe Kollwitz returns to Cambridge. War ravages the land. Someone mentions pathos comparing Kollwitz to Goya. A chorus nods its appreciation of pathos and it is left for some meek, distant voice to observe that Goya, however, remains a formidable criterion...
...seen through the eyes of a wounded, truly outraged witness, determined to convey hard facts via uncompromising reportage. War is indeed projected, a product of candid, literary honesty, but having very little to do with aesthetics. If Goya is so far removed, he is so because his masterly statements have everything to do with aesthetics...
...period sets of the 1920s in Paris and Pamplona, through which these disoriented drifters pass, are gaudily authentic, and indoors or out, the color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what...
...what was Goya saying? Malraux keeps lunging at the point. In general he argues that the master's art was anti-idealistic, un-Christian and interrogatory: "If Christ is not the very meaning of the world, then the body of an executed felon by the roadside is more significant than a crucifix . . . Christian art was an answer; his art is a question. The Mocking is a pathetic subject but not a ridiculous one because Jesus has chosen to be mocked. The garrotted victims of the Inquisition have not chosen the pointed cap that shakes in their agony; the laughter...