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...reign of pudgy Charles IV, King of Spain from 1788 to 1808, was as squalid as it was tragic, but it did boast one supreme ornament. The Painter to the King was Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, who left behind on canvas a royal family album that has dazzled the world ever since. Each year thousands of visitors to the Prado in Madrid have come to know Goya's bumbling old King, his sharp-faced Queen, the sulky heir apparent, and a host of beribboned infantes and infantas, all portrayed with ruthless candor. But one member...
...occupational-therapy room last week, scores of prisoner-patients were making ceramics, doing woodwork and bookbinding, or putting their conflicts on canvas-some in the most modern nonobjective manner, others in representational styles recalling the tortured figures of Goya and the climbing workers of Rivera. From a low-fi record player came the inspirational strains of Beethoven's Eroica. The California Medical Facility is still a prison, but a prison with a difference...
Since long before Isaiah prophesied that nations would beat their swords into plowshares, men of good will have dreamed the noble dream of disarmament and everlasting peace. Great thinkers and artists-Kant and Rousseau, Goya and Daumier-have preached it in their works. During the interval between the two World Wars, it even seemed at times that the ancient dream was at last approaching fulfillment...
...Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth (who sent Signorelli's Hercules and Antaeus, and five other drawings from Windsor Castle), the show included 88 of the world's greatest. No one living could be sure which among them had the greatest claim to immortality. But the Altdorfer, Watteau and Goya drawings on the next four pages (all reproduced exactly full scale) would certainly be strong candidates...
...background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya's Two Prisoners in Irons can be like taking a header off a cliff. Unlike the monster-painters, whose malformed "images of man" are the latest art fad (TIME, Sept. 7), Goya made the victims of inhumanity-in this case, obviously a chained father and son-touching...