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Francisco Goya acknowledged only three masters: "Nature, Velasquez and Rembrandt." His careful study of all three was made apparent last week in a fine survey of Goya's work staged by a Manhattan gallery. The show also pointed up the strength and poignancy of Goya's feelings, which set him well apart from the mainstream...
...Wells: Prophet of Our Day appears four years after his death in 1946. Poland-born Antonina Vallentin, a naturalized Frenchwoman, has two qualifications for the job: 1) she knew Wells, 2) she is practiced in writing books about famous men (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Heine, Gustav Stresemann, Mirabeau, Goya). With H. G. Wells, she comes to grips with her first eccentric Briton-and emerges from the struggle wearing the pained, puzzled expression of a fighter who has been repeatedly but deftly rabbit-punched...
...Spanish government building at the Paris World's Fair. The mural, done entirely in black, white and grey, symbolized the bombing of a Spanish town by German planes. Brutally ugly, it mixed classical analogies with a suggestion of crumpled newspapers and memories of the bull ring. Goya himself never painted a darker evocation of war's horror...
...house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place into a fluttery nest of picture postcards, tabloid shock photos, scraps of comic strips and reproductions of such artists as Goya, George Grosz and Gustave Dore...
There was an Absinthe Drinker reminiscent of Frans Hals, a Spanish Ballet in Goya's broad, fluent style, a flag-decked street brushed loosely and brightly in the manner of Monet,* and a rather plain blonde mooning over a plum in a cafe which Degas might have painted. Their sources were often apparent, but Manet's clean, revealing light raised each picture above the level of imitation and tended to surpass even his chosen masters'. That same light had long made Manet a laughingstock of Paris...