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Sculptor Smith's medals could be pigeonholed as surrealist, but so could some works from which they were descended: Gothic decoration, the imagery of Artist (The) William Blake (no kin to pseudonymous Author Blake), the Caprichos of Goya, the dream pictures of 15th-Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken...
...mass painting got under way on the studio set, cinemen & women crowded round to watch. Quintanilla, who picked for his subject the only two girls in the cast, was nicknamed "Goya." Painter Biddie and Actor John Qualen (of whom he did a portrait) played flute duets. After a ong conversation with Joan Crawford, Painter Fiene (whom Hollywood nicknamed "The Safe" because of his bulk) admitted that her legs were even more shapely than he had imagined...
When Washington Irving, the successful, 42-year-old American author, first visited Madrid in 1826, Spain's empire and glory and even Goya were gone.* All that was left was picturesqueness and a sort of sunset charm, but that was enough to entrance the whimsical New Yorker. Probably the most uncritical foreign observer who ever appeared on the Peninsula, he took to the high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated...
...years before, Goya, at 78, had crossed the Pyrenees alone and gone to Bordeaux. While he did revisit Madrid briefly in 1827, his long life and his work were practically at an end. Goya died at Bordeaux...
...this kind of hullabaloo could not obscure the most important fact: quiet, stocky William Gropper, a punch-packing cartoonist, is a still better painter. He paints as he draws, quickly and simply, without benefit of model, in reds, blues, yellows, whites. His masters are Breughel, Goya and Daumier. He does not disgrace them. Typically class-conscious canvases at the A. C. A. show: The Shoemaker, who is mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons...