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...sadness of Spain and the monotony of the Spanish coloring is admirably reflected in the work of Tàpies, Millares, Saura, Rivera, Chillida, as it was in the work of their forefathers Goya, El Greco, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, and still is in some of the best work of Picasso...
...long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends $8 annually on cosmetics. The British teen-ager...
...living Spanish artist a degenerate and banned his works. But Spain's artistic roots go deep. Last week in two major exhibits in Manhattan-one at the Museum of Modern Art, the other at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-U.S. gallerygoers could see that the heirs of Goya and El Greco had plunged headlong into their own brand of abstract expressionism...
...countess was Charles IV's cousin, and Goya painted her first when she was a happy little child without a care. At 18, she was forced to marry Don Manuel Godoy, a shrewd provincial nobody whose seductive charms eventually made him lover to the Queen, favorite to the King, Duke of Alcudia and later Sueca, Prince of the Peace, Prime Minister-and the most hated man in Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this...
When the countess posed for Goya the second time, she was only 21, and the artist never treated a subject with more tenderness. As usual, he did not care about background-the person was his concern-and he painted her sitting in darkness, yet glowing with light, her pale hands gracefully folded in a shy attempt to conceal her first pregnancy. But what makes the picture unforgettable is the expression on the face-the exquisitely sad look of one whose life has been stolen and who knows that no one will give it back...