Word: goya
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...bullfighters (stuck in permanent fantasy, clutching their swords in one hand and their naked majas in the other) seem to be done in some spirit of homage to Goya, but they are not a homage that Goya would have accepted: they are too badly painted, sentimental and cursory for that. Thus, losing his specificity, Picasso had literally nothing left to paint...
...Coney Island ghosts. Fluorescent skeletons jiggle their pasteboard bones in each recess; the cellars resound with prerecorded mutters, wails and injunctions to silence; entrepreneurs tap their way down the corridors, prodding each moulding in the hope that a panel will fly open, revealing a lost Titian, an undocumented Goya, or a Japanese gingko-nut tycoon with an open checkbook. Collectors do not want the taxman to know how much they paid for what, and neither do dealers. The availability of a painting may be the occasion for as much conspiratorial hoo-ha and discreetly vicious elbowing as anything...
...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...