Word: goya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the question of authenticity often comes down to aesthetic sensibility. Take A City on a Rock, long assigned to Goya. Says Fahy...
...Every time Goya put his palette knife to a painting, he knew what he was doing. There are no waste strokes. In A City on a Rock everything just falls apart." As a result, Fahy concluded that the picture was not by Goya but by Eugenic Lucas, a 19th century imitator. Or in the case of Rembrandt's long-admired Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, says John Walsh, a curator in the European painting department...
...barter $40 million worth of U.S. machinery for Soviet nickel over the next five years. That works out to a not overly impressive $8,000,000 a year. The only exchange that he has already concluded involved neither money nor commercial products but art works. He donated a Goya portrait to the Hermitage museum in Leningrad and received in return an abstract painting by Kasimir Malevich, whose work is in such deep disfavor among Soviet officials that it has not been exhibited in more than 40 years...
...Third World, Paz believes, and his primary concern is to save them. In his quest for allies he ranges far and wide. He examines fellow Latin American artists like Pablo Neruda (whom he calls "a poetic continent") and the film maker Luis Bunuel (whom he compares to Goya). He looks to Marshall McLuhan, then looks away from him -as a "prophet," alas, only of Madison Avenue...
...ordered the city held "at all costs"-and it was. An Loc never fell, reports Neff, but neither did it exactly survive. Once a prosperous commercial hub for the area's rubber plantations, An Loc before the siege had a population of 20,000; today it is a Goya-like portrait of the horrors of war, inhabited by perhaps 250 civilians...